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Girl, 16, Dies After Being Made to Sleep in ‘Period Hut’ Outside Her Home

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She’s believed to have been killed by a snake bite while she was sleeping.

A “chhaupadi house” or “period hut” in the village of Achham, some 800 kilometers west of Kathmandu, Nepal, on Nov. 23, 2011.
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