Nepali women, two sons die in menstruation hut

The woman and her two children died of suspected smoke inhalation after a night in a windowless hut where women are banished during their period. Many communities in Nepal consider menstruating women as impure and force mothers and daughters to stay in sheds away from the family home once a month.

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