An 8-year-old girl has died of internal bleeding after marrying a
40-year-old man in Yemen. Although officials have denied the news, Yemen
locals have come out in their numbers to protest the shocking death of
the minor.
Highlighting the dangers and cruelty involved in child bride
stories, the young girl identified as Rawan died on her wedding night
after first intercourse.
Arwa Othman, head of Yemen’s House of Folklore and a leading rights
campaigner, said the girl was married to a 40-year-old late last week in
the town of Meedi in Hajjah province, north-western Yemen. “On the
wedding night and after intercourse, she suffered from bleeding and
uterine rupture which caused her death.
They took her to a clinic but
the medics couldn’t save her life,” Othman said. Othman said authorities
had not taken any action against the girl’s family or her husband. A
security official in the provincial town of Haradh denied any such
incident had taken place
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