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Hamirpur woman dies after assault by teenage boy

Shimla/Hamirpur (HP), Nov 8(UNI) A middle-aged woman who was sexually assaulted and attacked by a teenage boy while cutting grass in Himachal's Hamirpur district died at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGI), Chandigarh, on Friday night.
Superintendent of Police (SP) Hamirpur, Bhagat Singh Thakur, confirmed that the woman succumbed to her injuries last night.
Police said the accused, a Class 9 student, allegedly tried to sexually assault the woman and attacked her with a sickle and a stick while she resisted, though she suffered serious injuries and bleed profusely.
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