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Sunday March 17, 2013

Five confess to gang-raping Swiss tourist in India


NEW DELHI: Five villagers have confessed to gang-raping a Swiss tourist in central India, police said Sunday, in an incident that renewed focus on the rampant violence against women in the country.

The woman was on a cycling holiday with her husband in impoverished Madhya Pradesh state, when six men attacked the couple on Friday night, sexually assaulting the woman and robbing the pair, police said. - AFP

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