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Delhi gang-rape victim dies in
Singapore
Saturday December 29, 2012 08:53:14 AM,
IANS
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Singapore: A young woman who was flown to Singapore
after her brutal gang-rape and torture in the Indian capital died
here early Saturday, the Mount Elizabeth Hospital announced.
The victim, whose name has not been revealed, passed away
"peacefully" at 4.45 a.m. with her distraught family and Indian
diplomats by her side, hospital official Kelvin Loh said in a
statement.
"We are very sad to report that the patient passed away peacefully
at 4.45 a.m.,"
Chief Executive Loh said. "Her family and officials from the high
commission of India were by her side."
The 23-year-old woman suffered multiple-organ failure after she
was raped by six men in a moving bus in Delhi for about 40 minutes
Dec 16 and dumped her by a roadside.
Her male friend was also badly beaten up and thrown out of the
bus.
All six accused, including one who is said to be juvenile, have
been arrested and are in Delhi's Tihar Central Jail.
Authorities in India shifted the woman, who had been on ventilator
support since her rape, to Singapore Thursday in last ditch
attempt to save her life.
"Despite all efforts by a team of eight specialists in Mount
Elizabeth Hospital to
keep her stable, her condition continued to deteriorate over these
two days," Loh
said.
"She had suffered from severe organ failure following serious
injuries to her body
and brain.
"She was courageous in fighting for her life for so long against
the odds but the trauma to her body was too severe for her to
overcome."
B.D. Athani, medical superintendent of Delhi's Safdarjung
Hospital, said the woman had been speaking to her mother and other
family members earlier, giving the impression that she would
somehow survive.
But her condition deteriorated rapidly after the operation, with a
fatal infection spreading to her chest, lungs and intestine, he
said.
India's High Commissioner to Singapore, T.C.A, Raghavan, said the
woman's family was "shattered".
"The scale of her injuries (was) very great," Raghavan told the
media.
"It was very trying for the family. The girl of course was
unconscious...
"I must say they (the family) bore the entire process with a great
deal of fortitude and a great deal of courage."
He said arrangements were on to take the body to India in line
with the family's wishes.
The horrific gang-rape, in which the rapists used an iron rod to
torture her, triggered angry demonstrations across india against
growing sexual crimes against women.
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