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Mumbai photojournalist gang-raped on assignment
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-23806871A 23-year-old photojournalist has been gang-raped by five men in the Indian city of Mumbai, police say.
The woman, who was on assignment on Thursday evening in the Lower Parel area when she was attacked, is in hospital with multiple injuries.
She was accompanied by a male friend who was beaten by her attackers. Police say 16 people have been detained.
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The victim of Thursday's attack worked with a Mumbai-based English magazine and had gone to the Shakti Mills - a former textile mill that now lies abandoned and in ruins - for a photo shoot, police said.
The woman, who was on assignment on Thursday evening in the Lower Parel area when she was attacked, is in hospital with multiple injuries.
She was accompanied by a male friend who was beaten by her attackers. Police say 16 people have been detained.
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The victim of Thursday's attack worked with a Mumbai-based English magazine and had gone to the Shakti Mills - a former textile mill that now lies abandoned and in ruins - for a photo shoot, police said.
That's awful. I can see Shakti Mills from my window right now. The sexual violence in India is absolutely appalling.
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