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Indian gang-rape victim 'numb' after attackers freed

People protest in New Delhi on Thursday against the release of 11 Hindu men who were jailed for life for the gang-rape of a pregnant Muslim woman during sectarian riots in 2002 in Gujarat state. (Reuters Photo)

NEW DELHI: A Muslim woman who was gang-raped as 14 people were murdered during one of post-independence India’s worst religious riots has said she is “numb” after her attackers were released early from prison.

In a case that drew global outrage, Bilkis Bano and two of her children were the only survivors among a group of 17 Muslims attacked by a Hindu mob in the western state of Gujarat in 2002.

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