Manhunt after tourist raped in south India
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A GERMAN tourist has accused two men of taking her captive and raping her in southern India, just weeks after the rape and murder of an Irish woman in Goa.
She told police two men dragged her to a secluded spot from a private beach resort in the southern tourist town of Mamallapuram in Tamil Nadu state and raped her on Sunday.
“We have registered a sexual assault complaint and a manhunt has been launched to track the attackers,” said district police chief Santosh.
“We are questioning suspects but no arrests have been made yet.”
He said medical tests had confirmed sexual assault and the German embassy had been informed.
A spokeswoman for Germany’s foreign office said its consul-general in state capital Chennai was in close contact with local authorities.
The incident comes barely three weeks after a 28-year-old Irish woman was raped and murdered in Goa.
Danielle McLaughlin’s naked body was found near a beach on March 14, with injuries all over her body.
A local man has been arrested.
India faced international scrutiny over levels of violence against women following the fatal gang-rape of a medical student in New Delhi in December 2012.
Last December, a 35-year-old Japanese tourist was raped in southern India.
In 2014, a Danish woman was gang-raped in New Delhi after she became lost. Five men were sentenced to life imprisonment over that attack.
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