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India gang-rape vic ‘apologized’

DELHI, India — A 23-year-old physiotherapy student gang-raped on a moving bus in December apologized to a male friend as she lay dying, according to the friend, who was beaten up trying to defend her.

“She told me she was sorry because I’d wanted to stand longer by the fountains but her mother had called and so she insisted we leave earlier,” recalled the friend, a 28-year-old software engineer.

The woman was left for dead after the Dec. 16 attack, which sparked international outrage. She succumbed to her injuries 13 days later.