India, March 7 -- Four men allegedly gang-raped a 90-year-old woman and tried to kill her in Madhya Pradesh's Khandwa district, police said.

The woman was living in a house on a farm. "On Wednesday night, she was sleeping when the four men entered her house and brutally raped the elderly woman," Punasa Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDOP) Manohar Gawli said.

"After committing the crime, the criminals tried to kill the woman by throwing her into a well. But hearing people's cries, they left her in the field and fled. When villagers arrived at the farm on Thursday morning, they found the woman in an injured condition," the SDOP said.

"Her daughter reached home and saw multiple injuries. But they hid the matter because of social stigma. O...