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December 06, 2019The Indian police announced that they had shot dead the four men accused of gang rape and the killing of a 27-year-old veterinarian whose body had been burned by her attackers. The four were reportedly killed during a nightly reconstruction of the facts attributed to them at the Hyderabad crime scene: "They were killed in a shootout: they tried to take possession of their guards' weapons but were shot ", a police spokesman said, pointing out that the suspects had died before the rescue arrived.

The case of the young woman killed caused a strong public reaction in the country and on Saturday the police had to forcibly disperse a crowd of protesters who tried to enter the police station where the four were detained.

According to police reconstructions, the attackers had tampered with the girl's scooter on the evening of November 27 and offered to help her when the young woman had gone to resume the means to return home at the end of her working day. The sister later reported that she had been called by the girl who had told her about the four, telling her to be afraid and trying a little later to contact her again by telephone, but to no avail.