4-year-old girl is gang-raped by hospital worker and four others while in intensive care in India

A 4-year-old girl was admitted to the intensive care unit of a hospital in India to treat snakebite, but while there, she was gang-raped by a hospital worker and 4 other men.

The child was being treated in a private hospital in Uttar Pradesh, India, when she was attacked.

Police official Mahesh Srivastava said the girl told her grandmother she was raped by a hospital attendant and four others on Saturday night. Sky News reported that one man is in custody and police are still looking for others.

Detectives have asked for CCTV footage and are trying to establish why the child was left alone in the ICU