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   SANAA: An eight-year-old Yemeni girl died of internal bleeding   
   on her wedding night after marrying a man five times her age, a   
   social activist and two local residents said, in a case that has   
   caused an outcry in the media and revived debate about child   
   brides.   
      
   Arwa Othman, head of Yemen House of Folklore and a leading   
   rights campaigner, said the girl, identified only as Rawan, was   
   married to a 40-year-old man last week in the town of Meedi in   
   Hajjah province in northwestern Yemen. "On the wedding night and   
   after intercourse, she suffered from bleeding and uterine   
   rupture which caused her death," Othman said. "They took her to   
   a clinic but the medics couldn't save her life."   
      
   Othman said authorities had not taken any action against the   
   girl's family or her husband. A local security official in the   
   provincial town of Haradh denied any such incident had taken   
   place. He did not want to be identified because he was not   
   authorized to speak to the press.   
      
   But two Meedi residents confirmed the incident and said that   
   local tribal chiefs had tried to cover up the incident when news   
   first broke, warning a local journalist against covering the   
   story.   
      
   Many poor families in Yemen marry off young daughters to save on   
   the costs of bringing up a child and earn extra money from the   
   dowry given to the girl. A UN report released in January   
   revealed the extent of the country's poverty, saying that 10.5   
   million of Yemen's 24 million people lacked sufficient food   
   supplies, and 13 million had no access to safe water and basic   
   sanitation. Human Rights Watch urged Yemen in December 2011 to   
   ban marriages of girls under 18, warning it deprived them of   
   education and harmed their health.   
      
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