An eighteen-year-old Ukrainian girl has expired in hospital, weeks after an atrocious sexual stabbed that driven a campaign against political corruption.
Oksana Makar was assaulted in the southern city of Mykolayiv on 8 March by three men who raped her and attempted to repress her before setting her on fire.
Three men were held, but two - whose parents had political links - were freed without any allegation.
They have since been re-detained, after the case provoked a national protest.
Two have been accused with gang rape and one with rape and tried to kill.
Ms. Makar lost awareness after her assaulters dumped her at a construction site and set flame to her. She was finally found the next morning by a visitor and taken to hospital in Mykolayiv with 55% burns.
She was shifted to a specialist unit in the eastern city of Donetsk because of the harshness of her burns and lost to her lungs. Doctors at the hospital's burns centre said her heart had congested because of bleeding in her lungs and she died after repetitive tries to revive her.
Interior Minister Vitaly Zakharchenko has said that the parents of two of the thinks are past government authorities in the Mykolayiv area.
Ukrainian media have shown recordings of one of the three criminals explaining to police how Ms. Makar was assaulted in a flat in the city and then enfolded in a blanket and left in a hole in the ground. The Kiev Post explained the assault as "one of Ukraine's most terrible offenses in recent years".
There have been many demonstrations in Mykolayiv and differ places in Ukraine, as well as in Odessa and Kharkiv.
