Image copyright AFP Image caption Schoolgirls staged a protest rally on 8 May after the first two rape and burning attacks 
 
 A teenage girl in India has been raped and burned alive by her attacker - the third instance of such an attack in the same week. 
 
 The 16-year-old girl died after being soaked in fuel and set on fire at her home in the Sagar district of Madhya Pradesh. 
 
 Police said she was killed after telling her attacker she would inform her family about the rape. 
 
 Two other similar attacks, one fatal, took place in Jharkhand this week. 
 
 A 17-year-old girl remains in critical condition after being set on fire by a suspect who allegedly said he wanted to marry the victim, but had been rejected. 
 
 The earlier case involved a 16-year-old who was burned alive after her parents complained to village elders about her rape. The accused had been ordered to do sit-ups and pay a fine as punishment, prompting them to beat the girl's parents and kill her. 
 
 In the most recent attack, the victim was at home alone in Jujharpur village when she was attacked. Police said they had arrested a suspect, named as 28-year-old Ravi Chadhar. 
 
 Widespread outrage 
 
 India is facing renewed public outrage over the number of violent sexual assaults in the country. 
 
 BBC India correspondent Soutik Biswas recently wrote that "rape is increasingly used as an instrument to assert power and intimidate the powerless in India". 
 
 Image copyright Reuters Image caption The rape of an eight-year-old girl prompted a number of protest rallies in April 
 
 Recent public anger over sexual assaults was sparked by the rape and murder of an eight-year old girl in January. 
 
 The girl, a member of a Muslim nomadic tribe, was found dead in Indian-administered Kashmir. 
 
 Eight Hindu men were arrested, and there was an outcry when two ministers from the Hindu BJP party attended a rally in support of the accused. In April, Hindu right-wing groups staged protests over the arrests. 
 
 Another BJP politician has also been accused of raping a 16-year-old girl - a charge he denies. 
 
 Public outrage over sexual violence in India rose dramatically after the 2012 gang rape and murder of a student on a Delhi bus. 
 
 Four of the accused were given a death sentence, recently upheld on appeal, and the case led to new anti-rape laws. ||||| New Delhi (CNN) Police in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh are investigating the death of 16-year-old-girl who was allegedly raped and set on fire, in the third such case reported in India this month. 
 
 The attack is alleged to have been carried out by a 28-year-old man, Sagar district Superintendent of Police Satyendra Kumar Shukla said. 
 
 The girl's family alleges that she was raped and set on fire at her home in Jhujharpura village on Thursday after her cousin told the man accused of the crime that the victim was home alone, police said. 
 
 The girl's cousin and the 28-year-old have been arrested. 
 
 Following a post-mortem report, local police confirmed the girl died from burns sustained in the fire, Shukla told CNN. Police have not yet been able to confirm the rape but are preserving all evidence in the case for final confirmation, Shukla said.
– A horrifying incident is becoming somewhat of a trend in India, where a third teenager has reportedly been raped and then burned alive, with all the incidents happening in the span of one week. The BBC reports the 16-year-old was allegedly killed after informing her attacker, a man police have named as 28-year-old Ravi Chadhar, she wouldn't stay mum about the rape. She was reportedly doused with fuel and set on fire in her Madhya Pradesh home. CNN reports that the girl's cousin allegedly told her attacker she was home alone; both the cousin and Chadhar have been arrested. The other attacks occurred in Jharkhand, with one of the girls, 17, surviving in critical condition with burns to 70% of her body. Her attacker allegedly had wanted to marry her but had been denied. The first case involved a 16-year-old who was killed after her parents reported her rape to village leaders. Enraged by the punishment the elders imposed—100 sit-ups and a fine of roughly $750—police say Dhanu Singh Bhuiyan stormed into the girl's house in the village of Chatra, attacked her parents, and fatally set the girl on fire.