Six men hold girl, 16, captive and gang-rape her for a week in latest case to shock India
A 16-year-old girl was held captive and raped by six men and boys for five days in the latest case to spark national outrage in India.
The victim was found in shock at the bus station in Ongole, in Prakasam district, on Saturday night.
Leaders of India's Andhra Pradesh state have pledged firm action.
'This is a heinous crime and we will take deterrent steps to ensure such incidents did not recur,' Andhra Pradesh state Home Minister Mekathoti Sucharitha said. State legislator for Ongole and Andhra Pradesh Energy Minister Balineni Srinivasa Reddy also condemned the incident.
Police said seven suspects had been arrested, four of them engineering students and, shockingly, three of them minors.
Prakasam District Superintendent of Police Siddharth Kaushal told media on Sunday that one of the suspects had gaine dthe girl's trust while she was waiting for her friend at the station on June 17 Source
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