MEERUT, March 31 -- A 45-year-old woman, who was allegedly abducted and gang-raped by five unidentified men in a car, was then shot at and critically injured at an isolated place in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly district on Saturday evening, police said on Sunday.

The assailants later threw her out of the car near Gandhi Udyan and escaped, they added. The incident occurred when the woman, a divorcee, had gone to the market for some work, the police said.

Superintendent of police (city) Manush Pareek said the police received information about the shooting around 8 pm. Soon after, a police team arrived there, and inspector Amit Pandey of Kotwali police got the woman admitted to the district hospital.

She sustained a gunshot wound to the upper...