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Child torture case 'shocking'

Updated on 06 April 2009

By Darshna Soni

Police question two brothers aged 10 and 11 over the alleged torture of a pair of schoolchildren, after a savage attack just outside Doncaster.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called the incident "shocking".

Detectives are investigating claims that the young victims were cut with a knife, hit with bricks and even burnt with cigarettes.

One, who is 11, was allegedly pushed to the bottom of a ravine, suffering serious head injuries.

His nine-year-old friend was found wandering down a road, covered in blood.

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