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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Amrit Dhillon in Delhi

Doctors strike in India after rape and murder of trainee medic at hospital

Posters reading 'We want justice', 'No security, no work' and 'No mercy to rapists' outside the emergency ward at RG Kar medical college in Kolkata
Posters outside the emergency ward at RG Kar medical college in Kolkata. Photograph: Sudipta Das/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock

Doctors at government hospitals in several Indian states have gone on strike in a protest after the rape and murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata on Friday.

The 31-year-old woman was attacked at the state-run RG Kar medical college, where she was a resident doctor, after she went to rest in a seminar room following dinner with colleagues. Her brutalised body was found with multiple injuries and an autopsy confirmed sexual assault and homicide.

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