THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India — Friends and relatives gathered Sunday to remember the Latvian woman who police say was raped and murdered after she disappeared while being treated at a centre for traditional medicine in south India. The 33-year-old woman, who was receiving traditional Ayurvedic treatment for depression in the state of Kerala, disappeared in mid-March. Police say two men lured the woman from a popular beach near the treatment centre, then drugged and raped her. Hundreds of people, including the woman’s sister, gathered Sunday in the city of Thiruvananthapuram to remember the victim and plant a tree in her memory. “We shall meet again when the time is right.”Indian law prohibits identifying rape victims, including those who have been killed.

Source: National Post May 06, 2018 17:59 UTC