Kathmandu (Nepal), Jan 9 (EFE/EPA). A young woman died while sleeping in a shed in western Nepal as a result of the Hindu practice known as "Chhaupadi", in which menstruating women are forbidden from sleeping in their own houses and are exiled to isolated huts.
 
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