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Jayanthi Pawar ByExpress News ServiceCHENNAI: An eight-year-old girl, who was allegedly raped by 16 men, including her relatives, over a period of four years, died on Thursday. While the police is awaiting the postmortem report, the child’s parents said that she died after a prolonged illness. On Thursday evening, the younger daughter, Priya (name changed), complained about stomach pain and stepped into the toilet at around 9.40 pm once and at 10.10 pm again. After filing the police complaint, Lakshmi brought the girls to Chennai fearing for their lives. “The death of the child does not seem to be connected to them,” Villuppuram Superintendent of Police S Jeyakumar told Express..