Most of those living at Katra Sadatganj have little choice in the matter.
"There's no toilet. Where can the girls go?" shouted Jamuna Devi, one of those who had gathered to mourn the dead girls, as she sat on the mud floor of their home. "No one has done anything for sanitation," she complained.
"We are scared," screamed Renu Devi, another of the women consoling the pair's bereaved mothers. "If this could happen to them, it could happen with us also.