A 33-year-old tribal woman was allegedly raped and murdered in Telangana's Medak district, police said on Sunday.

The woman, who was found lying unconscious with a head injury on Saturday, succumbed while she was being shifted to Hyderabad for treatment.

The woman, a daily-wage labourer had left her home for labour work on Friday. She was lying unconscious with a head injury under a tree in Kulcharam mandal on Saturday morning. Local residents had alerted the police.

The victim, mother of five, was initially taken to a local hospital and was subsequently referred to another hospital in Hyderabad but died on the way on Saturday night.

Police suspect that the woman was gang-raped. After the sexual assault, the assailants hit her with a boulder.

Based on the complaint filed by the woman'

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