From actually reading the piece, this headline is wrong. It should read "Gang-raped 14 year old was burned alive then cut to pieces"
Which actually makes more sense
For transparency, it says that she was alive when she was burned, and the body was recovered from more than one location and this made the investigation harder.
So I have then concluded that she was burned alive and then cut to pieces, rather than cut to pieces alive and then burned.
It's not. Drowning is way worse. When you burn (I'm sure it's insanely awful at first) your nerve endings are destroyed fairly quickly and that stops pain. I'm not saying burning alive isn't horrific, but pain wise drowning is worse.