Uttar Pradesh: 2 minor sisters kidnapped, gangraped by 5 men at gunpoint in Badaun

Two minor girls were allegedly kidnapped and gangraped at gunpoint by five men in Jareef Nagar area in Uttar Pradesh.

The accused, two of them brothers, held the girls captive at gunpoint when they had ventured out of home for some work on Tuesday night, Senior Superintendent of Police Saumitra Yadav said, adding the girls were gangraped by them.

The accused were later nabbed by the villagers when the victims raised an alarm and handed over to police, PTI reported.

"A case has been lodged and the girls were sent for medical examination," the SSP said. Their medical examination report is awaited, he said.

Earlier, two cousins, aged 14 and 15, went missing from their house on the night of May 27 and their bodies were found hanging from a tree in the village in Ushait area the next day. They were allegedly raped and hanged with a tree.