"Two more women have been found hanging from trees in India's Uttar Pradesh state, and another has claimed she was gang-raped by four police officers, the latest developments in a crisis over women's safety that has gripped the Asian nation, Sky News reports. Last month, two girls, aged 14 and 15, were gang-raped and lynched in the impoverished Katra village, triggering outrage across the nation and leading India's national women's rights body to call for the state government to resign over the crisis. In Thursday's incident, a 19-year-old was found hanging from a tree in a village in Morabad district, Sky News reported. "The body was strung up using the girl's dupatta (long scarf)," senior police superintendent Ashutosh Kumar said. 'The FIR (first information report) was lodged by the girl's brother against unidentified persons. He has alleged the girl was murdered.' The discovery comes one day after a 45-year-old woman was found hanging from a tree, with her family claiming she had been raped and murdered. Her husband said she was singled out for attack as she returned home in Bahraich district as punishment for trying to halt the sale of alcohol in her area. A district superintendent said four men have been detained in the case. Meanwhile, the woman who alleged she was gang-raped by police officers said the crime happened inside a police station as she was trying to secure her husband's release. She claimed she was attacked when she refused to pay authorities a bribe. Official statistics say about 25,000 rapes are committed every year in India, a nation of 1.2 billion people. Activists, though, say that number is just a tiny percentage of the actual number, since victims are often pressed by family or police to stay quiet about sexual assaults. The stigma of rape runs deep, with many women accused of rape still forced to answer questions about their sexual history, the provocativeness of their clothing and whether they may have invited the attack."