Israeli tourist and homestay host gang-raped in India, police say

The two women were reportedly stargazing with three male tourists near a lake in Hampi, Karnataka, when they were attacked.

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The two women - an Israeli tourist and an Indian homestay operator - were stargazing with three male tourists near a lake in the city of Hampi, Karnataka, when they were attacked by a group of men on Thursday night, police superintendent Ram Arasiddi told Reuters.

Arasiddi said the assailants pushed the men into the Tungabhadra River canal before raping the women.

Two of the men, one of them American, survived, and the third man's body was recovered on Saturday morning, he said.

"Five people - two women and three men - were attacked near Sanapur," Arasiddi said.

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