Police in the Indian capital Delhi have arrested two people in connection with the gang rape of a Danish woman.
According to a Delhi police official, two unemployed young men were apprehended late on Wednesday, an iPad, a mobile phone and some cash belonging to the victim, were recovered from them.
“We have identified the culprits, all of them are [local] vagabonds, they would be caught soon,” a police official was quoted as saying by an Indian news agency.
The 51-year-old tourist was attacked by a group of men in the Paharganj area of New Delhi on Tuesday, was robbed and raped at knife point, according to police sources.
She lost her way back to her hotel near New Delhi Railway Station. She approached a group of men to ask for directions. The men robbed her of her belongings and raped her, police spokesperson Rajan Bhagat had told the media.
The woman flew out of India on Wednesday morning, reports say.
Sexual violence in India has grown since the 2012 gang rape and murder of a student on a Delhi bus.
Last year a Swiss tourist was gang raped and her partner attacked by a group of men in Madhya Pradesh state. Six men were jailed for life for the attack in July.
Other recent incidents include the rape of a photojournalist in broad daylight in central Mumbai, a 21-year-old woman raped by two separate groups of men on Christmas Eve in Pondicherry and a 16-year-old girl who was set on fire after being gang-raped twice in the eastern city of Calcutta.