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Anger in Algeria over rape, murder of 19-year-old woman

Anger in Algeria over rape, murder of 19-year-old woman

BAN BARKAWI  THE rape and murder of a young woman has sparked anger in Algeria, with women's rights activists demanding to know why she was not better protected after her mother said the suspect in her killing had attacked her before. The 19-year-old victim was lured into an abandoned gas station where she was raped, beaten until she was unconscious and then set alight, according to a statement from a court in Bourmedes, the northern Algerian province where she died. In a video circulated on social media, her mother said the victim had been raped by the same man in…
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