Hyderabad case: Police kill suspects in rape and murder of Indian vet

Indian police have shot dead four men suspected of raping and killing a young female vet in Hyderabad last week.

The men were in police detention and were taken back to the scene of the crime in the early hours of Friday.

The suspects were shot when they tried to steal the officers' guns and escape, police told BBC Telugu.

However, human rights organisations including Amnesty คาสิโน International have called for investigations to determine if these were extrajudicial killings.

Why Indians are celebrating the killings in Hyderabad
"Extrajudicial killings are not a solution to preventing rape," said Avinash Kumar, executive director of Amnesty International India.

The 27-year-old rape victim's charred remains were discovered last Thursday - leading to outrage and protests over alleged police inaction.

After news of the killings broke, the victim's mother told the BBC, "justice has been done", while neighbours celebrated with firecrackers, and thousands of people took to the streets to hail the police.

How do the police explain the shooting?
Ten armed policemen took the four suspects - who were not handcuffed - to the scene of the crime to reconstruct the incident early on Friday, VC Sajjanar, police commissioner of the Hyderabad suburb of Cyberabad, said.

The toll plaza where the rape and murder took place is close to the suburb, which houses a number of global tech companies like Microsoft and sagame Google.

The police were looking for the victim's phone, power bank and watch which were reported missing, the police commissioner said.

"The four men got together and started to attack the officers with stones and sticks and also snatched away weapons from two officers and started firing," the commissioner said, in response to questions about why the men had been killed.