Tens of thousands of women in West Bengal, India, marched through the streets last night in protest against the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at a state-run hospital in Kolkata last week.
The Reclaim the Night march was the culmination of nearly a week of frantic protests ignited by the brutal rape and murder of a 31-year-old female trainee doctor at the RG Kar Medical College last Friday.
Responding to calls on social media, women from all walks of life marched across Kolkata city and throughout West Bengal state on a rainy Wednesday night.
Though protests were largely peaceful, they were marred by clashes between the police and a small group of unidentified men who barged into the RG Kar Hospital, the site of the doctor’s murder, and ransacked the emergency department.
Police fired tear gas to disperse the unruly crowd, while some police vehicles were also damaged.
Smaller protests were held in many other Indian cities like Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Pune.
Source : BBC
