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, at 11pm 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.
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 last 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.
Kherwar said one suspect had given the authorities the names of other people involved. — Reuters
