LUCKNOW, March 20 -- A 32-year-old woman died after she was allegedly kidnapped and gang raped in the wee hours of Wednesday, police sources said. The woman, who lived with her family in Ayodhya, was strangled after she was sexually assaulted at a mango orchard in Malihabad, they suspected.

According to her family, the woman was going to her brother's house in Chinhat after returning from Varanasi, where she had gone for a job interview. After deboarding a bus in Alambagh in the early hours, she hired an autorickshaw to go to Chinhat, but was abducted on the way, the family claimed.

Deputy commissioner of police (DCP)-West Vishwajeet Srivastava said the woman's brother reported her sister missing around 3.20 am. Before she was abducted,...