A British schoolgirl was murdered by health workers in India in a failed attempt to harvest her organs, her parents have claimed.
Gurkiren Kaur Loyal's family said she was being treated for a simple case of dehydration when staff at a clinic gave her a mystery injection which took her life.
Her relatives said they guarded the eight-year-old's body, meaning her organs could not be taken in time to be used in transplant operations.
But she was then subjected to a "medieval" post-mortem, during which all her major organs were removed in a bid to hide the truth of how she had been killed, the grieving family claim.
It was only once her body was flown home to Britain that they discovered her organs were missing and only her eyes remained, the family said.
The Indian police and medical authorities made little attempt to investigate the death, they say.
There is reportedly a "lucrative underground market" for human organs in India.
In 2007, Ravindranath Seppan, of the Chennai Doctors' Association for Social Equality, admitted: "India's rich are turning to India's poor to live longer."
He said the commercial trade of human organs remained big business, despite having been banned in 1994.
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