Indian police detain three accused of raping Brazilian-Spanish tourist

Indian police have detained three men and are searching for four
others accused of attacking two tourists and gang-raping the
woman, authorities and the couple said.
Police found the couple, who are Spanish citizens, around 11
p.m. local time (1730 GMT) on Friday on a roadside, looking like
they had suffered a beating, Pitamber Singh Kherwar,
superintendent of police in Dumka in eastern India, told
reporters on Saturday.
He did not give details on the crime or identify the
victims, adding the two people told authorities “their modesty
had been outraged”, in an incident involving seven men.
The couple, who identified themselves as Vicente and
Fernanda to Spanish TV channel Antena 3, said in a video
interview on Saturday that the men raped Fernanda and hit
Vicente repeatedly.
The couple said they had camped out near the site where they
were attacked because they could not find hotels nearby.
“They raped me, they took turns while some watched and they
stayed like that for about two hours”, Fernanda, who has joint
Brazilian-Spanish nationality, said in the interview.
Earlier this weekend, the couple published a video
describing what happened on their joint Instagram account, where
they post images of their travels around the world by motorcycle
to almost 200,000 followers. The video is no longer available.
In a new video, Vicente and Fernanda, who appears with
bruises on her face, thanked their followers for the support.
The Spanish Foreign Ministry said on Sunday it was sending
staff to the area and had been in touch with authorities, while
its Brazilian counterpart said it had sought contact with the
Brazilian citizen through its embassy in New Delhi and was
available to give every assist applicable.
Kherwar, the superintendent of police in Dumka, said on
Saturday one of the people detained had given the authorities
names of other people involved. Kherwar added that a forensic
science laboratory was helping in the case.