Spotlight on safety as US tourist gang-raped in India

An American tourist was gang-raped by a group of men in a hill resort in northern India, police said yesterday, in what is the latest in a series of attacks that have thrown the spotlight on women’s safety.

The woman was picked up by three men in a truck late on Monday while hitch-hiking back to her guest house in the town of Manali in Himachal Pradesh state, police said.

Three men have been arrested in connection with the alleged attack.