Bhawanipatna: A girl was allegedly gang-raped at Jaring forest near NH-26 under Junagarh police limits in Odisha's Kalahandi district. A video of the incident has gone viral on social media.

As per an FIR lodged by the victim, an AMN student, with Junagarh police yesterday, she was returning home from Bhawanipatna on a two-wheeler with a youth on September 14 around 2 pm when 5-6 armed miscreants intercepted the vehicle on the NH.

They forcibly took her to the forest where they raped her at knifepoint, she alleged. Police have started investigation into the incident and efforts were on identify and apprehend the wrongdoers.