Israeli woman gang raped at popular tourist destination in India

An Israeli woman, 27, has been gang raped near a Unesco heritage site on India’s “hippy trail”.

An Indian woman, 29, was also raped and a man killed in the attack on a group of five who had gone stargazing next to a river near the ancient village of Hampi in Karnataka, southern India.

According to Indian media reports, the five were sitting and playing guitar by the canal when three men on a motorbike approached them and asked for directions to a petrol station, before demanding money.

Police superintendent Ram Arasiddi told Reuters the assailants pushed three male tourists – two Indians and one American – into the Tungabhadra River canal before raping the women.