2 Girls' Bodies Found In Tree In UP's Kanpur, Families Allege Rape: Cops

The accused made a video of the assault and used it to blackmail the girls, their families told the police, alleging the hurt and humiliation led them to take their lives.

The bodies of two girls - a 16-year-old and a 14-year-old - were found hanging - an apparent case of death by suicide after being forced to drink liquor and sexually assaulted - from a tree in a village in the Kotwali area of Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur district late Wednesday.

According to their families, the girls went to the fields late last evening to relieve themselves.

Relatives went searching after they did not return, and found their bodies hanging from a nearby tree.