A Brazilian-Spanish couple, travelling through Asia on a motorcycle, faced a horrifying ordeal in Jharkhand’s Dumka district, India last week.
The woman, a vlogger, was gang-raped while her partner was beaten.
The couple was en route to Bhagalpur when they decided to halt in Dumka for the night, putting up a tent in the area.
The woman, renowned for her travel escapades with nearly 200,000 Instagram followers, shared the traumatic experience in a video message delivered in Spanish from the hospital where they sought refuge.
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Describing the harrowing event, she detailed the attackers’ brutality, recounting how they were accosted, assaulted, and threatened with a knife, with the assailants explicitly expressing intentions to kill them.
“We are in the hospital, and something happened to us that we wouldn’t wish on anyone. Seven men raped me, and they have beaten us and robbed us, although not many things (were taken) because what they wanted was to rape me. We are in the hospital with the police, it happened tonight in India,” she said in Spanish.
Her partner also shared the ordeal on social media, stating, “My oral cavity is severely damaged, yet my partner has fared worse than me. They assaulted me repeatedly with a helmet and struck me on the head with a stone. Thankfully, her protective jacket offered some resistance against the blows.”
The Superintendent of Police, Pitamber Singh Kherwar, received the distressing call and headed to the scene for verification.
“The woman and the man stopped a patrol van around midnight. Initially, the patrolling party did not understand much of the incident because the woman was speaking partly in English and partly in Spanish. They were taken to a nearby health centre,” the police boss said.
Upon reaching the health center, medical professionals informed the police about the sexual assault.
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Confirming the distressing incident, the Brazilian embassy in New Delhi issued a statement expressing deep concern over the plight of the couple.
The embassy revealed that the victims received urgent medical attention and promptly reported the crime to the local authorities.
In response, the authorities acted swiftly, identifying suspects and apprehending three out of the seven individuals sought in connection with the crime.