Gang raped, murdered and dumped on school steps - VIDEO

A girl was subjected to an attack and then murdered in a government middle school in the impoverished northern state of Uttar Pradesh, it emerged today.Police said her body was found outside the school premises in the village of Bal Singh Khera, just 10 miles from a village former American President Bill Clinton is visiting today.Gruesome images show blood and shredded pieces of clothes splattered across the school, which has been shutdown while investigations take place.Local police Superintendent Soumitra Yadav said: 'The exact cause of death can be established only after the postmortem report arrives. 'But according to our preliminary investigation, this is a being perceived as a case of gang rape.'Security is being ramped up in the area due to the visit of President Clinton, 67, who is visiting the neighbouring village of Mohanlalganj to promote the work of his Clinton Foundation.Meanwhile, a younger child was allegedly targeted by a security guard and a gym teacher at an upmarket school in India's southern city of Bangalore.The six-year-old's parents, from the eastern state of Odisha, only discovered what happened a few days ago after their daughter complained of a stomach ache and was taken to hospital.Two men have been arrested in connection with the July 2 attack that happened on the school campus during class hours.A gym instructor and a security guard were questioned by Karnataka police, but a second identification parade is being held to confirm their involvement.Bangalore's Deputy Commissioner of Police TD Pawar, who is leading the investigation, told The Times of India: 'We have a tough job on hand. There are 27 gym instructors in the school.'The two we have now are suspects. The girl is traumatized and we are trying to check with her as to who harmed her.'Reports of the rape sparked protests outside Vibgyor School, near the city's Kundalahalli Gate, as hundreds of parents pulled down its gates and shouted slogans.'They have handled it very shoddily,' said Vivek Sharma, parent of a boy studying in the school.On Thursday, school chairman Rustom Kerawala addressed a meeting of the parents where he offered his 'sincere apologies' and promised 'full cooperation' with the police in investigation.The two cases are the latest in a series of sexual assaults that have made headlines in India, a country where rape offences are reported every 21 minutes on average.In 2012 India saw an outpouring of grief and a new scrutiny of sexual violence after a student was raped and killed on a bus in the capital New Delhi.More recently, it emerged last week a 14-year-old girl was dragged into a forest and raped on the orders of a village council in remote eastern India in retaliation for a sex assault blamed on her brother.The attack took place after midnight on Sunday in a small village in Jharkhand state's Bokaro district.Last month, two teenage girls were allegedly raped before they were found swinging from a mango tree in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh.The new Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promised a zero tolerance approach on crimes against women, but violence and discrimination against women in remain deeply entrenched in society.(dailymail.co.uk)Bakudaily.az