Swiss tourist gang-raped in central India: Police
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BHOPAL, India (AFP) - A Swiss female tourist was gang-raped in rural central India, police said on Saturday, the latest victim of sexual violence against women in the South Asian nation.
The woman was on a cycling trip with her husband in impoverished Madhya Pradesh state, when seven to eight men attacked the couple on Friday night, sexually assaulting the woman and robbing the pair, police said.
The attackers “tied up the man and raped the woman in his presence", local police official S.M. Afzal said, adding that they stole 10,000 rupees (US$231) and a mobile phone from the woman.
The attack comes just months after thousands of women took to the streets to protest against India’s treatment of women following the fatal gang-rape of a 23-year-old student on a bus in New Delhi in December.
