Woman ‘raped at knifepoint and husband beaten’ on dream world trip

A couple exploring south east Asia by motorcycle have claimed they were horrifically attacked by a group of men.

The woman alleged she was gang raped by at least seven men at knifepoint in a forest camp where they had pitched their tent in India.

‘They robbed thrashed us and robbed us, but their main aim was to rape me,’ she said.

Her Brazilian husband added that he had also been ‘brutally thrashed’ and beaten.

‘Also, they put a knife around my neck and told me that they would kill me,’ he said.

He said both were currently in hospital and had spoken to police about the incident on Friday night.

Police reportedly got involved after seeing the couple near a road, but could not understand what had happened at first as they were speaking a mixture of Spanish and English.

After using Google Translate, they were able to piece together the allegations.

Four people have since been arrested in connection with the incident in Dumka district in the eastern state of Jharkhand.

Police chief Ajay Kumar Singh told The Indian Express newspaper said all men involved in the alleged incident had been identified and would be apprehended ‘soon’.

The Brazilian embassy in New Delhi said in a statement that they had been noticed of a Brazilian citizen with dual Spanish nationality and her Spanish husband being victims of a serious criminal attack in the Jharkhand state, northeast India, this weekend.

The couple had been on a once-in-a-lifetime trip on their motorbikes, coming into India through West Bengal after previously spending time in Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

They had been planning to continue through India and then onto Nepal.

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