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Nepalese teenager dies after being banished to shed for menstruating
A 15-year-old girl in western Nepal suffocated to death after being forced to stay in a poorly ventilated shed because she was menstruating, in an age-old Hindu practice banned over a decade ago, police said on Tuesday. Roshani Tiruwa’s body was discovered by her father early on Sunday in mud-and-stone hut in Gajra village in Achham district, 440km (275 miles) west of Kathmandu.
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