Another woman hanged in Uttar Pradesh

A teenage girl has been found hanging from a tree in a village in northern India on Thursday, just a day after a woman's body was found hanging in the same state.

The family members of the 19-year-old girl claimed that she was raped. She is the fourth woman to die in such a way in recent weeks in Uttar Pradesh state.

According to a BBC report, the post post-mortem of the girl is underway.

The post-mortem is being held to see whether the woman was raped but its findings are inconclusive.

It comes weeks after two teenage girls in the same state were gang raped and found hanging from a tree.

Such attacks have long taken place in Uttar Pradesh, reports the BBC's Geeta Pandey in Delhi, but recent outrage over gender crimes has meant that every case is being reported to police and getting media coverage.

Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state with more than 200 million people, is also home to a staggering number of poor and it is the poor and the disadvantaged low-caste women who are most at risk of such crimes, our correspondent adds.

The body of the latest victim was found in a village in the state's Moradabad area, just three hours' drive from India's capital, Delhi.

India's new Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said protecting women should be a priority.

Scrutiny of sexual violence in India has grown since the 2012 gang-rape and murder of a student on a Delhi bus.

The government tightened laws on sexual violence last year after widespread protests following the attack.