New Delhi : In a two-hour-long surgery, almost the entire intestine the 23-year-old medical student, who was gang-raped and brutally beaten with an iron rod for nearly 45 minutes on a Delhi bus, has been removed. Doctors attending to her said the intestines had become “non-viable and prone to gangarene.” However, before the surgery the girl gave a detailed statement to the police on what happened on Sunday night.
 
Her abdomen has been cleaned and closed. The doctors describe this as “one of the most tragic incidents we have ever seen,” and said this evening that the young woman is in critical condition. They say all emergency procedures have been performed now. She is being kept in ICU and, they hoped she would stabilise and would not develop any further complications.

All essential drugs are being administered intravenously, they said.

This morning, doctors had said that though she was conscious, her platelet count had fallen. And that they would also constantly keep her on the ventilator.

The woman, who has had multiple surgeries, was brought to the hospital on Sunday night with her intestines ruptured and injury marks all over her body. After she regained consciousness, she has not been able to speak but has scribbled messages for doctors and nurses.

The student was gang-raped and beaten for almost an hour as the privately owned bus she had boarded to go him, drove around south Delhi. Four men, including the driver of the bus, have been arrested in the case.
 
A male friend escorting her back home was beaten too with the iron rod. Police sources said the incident happened after an argument over why she was out with a man late in the night and the men on the bus decided to “teach her a lesson.”
 
After raping and torturing her they threw the woman and her friend out of the bus on a flyover where they were found unconscious.