Four-year-old Indian girl dies after rape attack—hospital

In this Friday, April 19, 2013 photo, stuffed toys lie in the body of a 5-year-old girl, according to police, being wheeled into a hospital for treatment after she was raped and tortured in New Delhi, India. Officials say the child is in serious condition after being raped and tortured by a man who held her in a locked room in India’s capital for two days. Police say the girl went missing Monday and was found Wednesday by neighbors who heard her crying in a room in the same New Delhi building where she lives with her parents. AP FILE PHOTO

MUMBAI—A four-year-old Indian girl has died in hospital nearly two weeks after she was raped and found unconscious at a farm, hospital staff and reports said on Tuesday.

The girl had been taken by air ambulance from central Madhya Pradesh state to the Care Hospital in Nagpur city on April 20, where she died on Monday night, a spokesman said.

“She died from a cardiac arrest at 7:45 p.m. on Monday. We were taking all measures… but yesterday her condition got bad and her blood pressure went down. She was not reacting to medications,” P.A. Sriram at the hospital told AFP.

The girl had been found unconscious by her parents on April 18, a day after a 35-year-old man allegedly raped her in the town of Ghansour and dumped her at a farm, the Press Trust of India reported.

She was initially taken to a local hospital, before being transported to Nagpur in Maharashtra state two days later.

The police have arrested one accused in the case in northern Bihar state, PTI said.

The case is the latest in a string of high-profile sex attacks that have sparked outrage in India over the treatment of women and girls, with protests first erupting in December over the savage gangrape of a 23-year-old student.

The April 15 kidnap and brutal rape of a five-year-old in the capital New Delhi, spurred another round of demonstrations in the capital over the high levels of sexual violence and police handling of the case.