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Raped Indian nurse dies after 42 years in coma

MUMBAI: A Mumbai nurse who was in a coma for 42 years after being sexually assaulted while working in a hospital has died, authorities have said. Aruna Shanbaug suffered severe brain damage and was in a vegetative state after she was raped and strangled with a metal chain by a hospital worker in 1973. The man, a ward attendant, left her to die in the hospital’s basement, where she was found 11 hours later. She was 25-years-old at the time. Shanbaug was diagnosed with pneumonia last week and had beenRead More