If a subset $X\subset R^3$ is closed, locally path connected and semilocally simply connected, then for each $x\in X$, the group $\pi_1(X,x)$ is torsion-free. See my answer here. I have no idea what happens if any of these conditions is weakened.
Moishe Kohan
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