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| NEW DELHI — A 51-year-old Danish woman said she was gang-raped in central New Delhi after she approached a group of men to ask for directions to her hotel, the Delhi police reported on Wednesday. | NEW DELHI — A 51-year-old Danish woman said she was gang-raped in central New Delhi after she approached a group of men to ask for directions to her hotel, the Delhi police reported on Wednesday. |
| The woman, who was staying at a hotel in an area popular with backpackers, told the police that the men took her to a secluded spot near the capital’s railway station on Tuesday and took turns raping her, said Rajan Bhagat, a spokesman for the Delhi police. | |
| The woman had arrived in Delhi on Monday from Agra, the site of the Taj Mahal, and was planning to leave India on Wednesday morning, said a manager at the inexpensive hotel where she was staying, whose sign reads “recommended by Lonely Planet.” | |
| The employee, who refused to give his name for fear of harming the hotel’s reputation, said she returned to the hotel at around 8:30 P.M. and asked the reception to call the police. After consultations with the police and staff from the Danish embassy that lasted until the early morning hours, she caught her previously scheduled morning flight out of India, the employee said. | |
| Fifteen people have been detained for questioning, the police told NDTV, an Indian cable news channel. Police officials told the Press Trust of India that she had been assaulted by “more than half a dozen” men who threatened her at knifepoint. | |
| Mr. Bhagat said that the woman had refused to be medically examined and that the police were trying to gather other evidence. | Mr. Bhagat said that the woman had refused to be medically examined and that the police were trying to gather other evidence. |
| Freddy Svane, Denmark’s ambassador to India, confirmed that an allegation of rape had been made by a Danish citizen on Tuesday. | Freddy Svane, Denmark’s ambassador to India, confirmed that an allegation of rape had been made by a Danish citizen on Tuesday. |
| The report of the attack comes after a year of intense national focus on the problem of sexual violence, set off by a brutal attack on a 23-year-old physiotherapy student in New Delhi in December 2012. The victim, who had boarded a private bus along with a male friend, was gang-raped and brutalized with a metal rod and later died from her injuries. Amid widespread outrage over the attack, India’s Parliament stiffened penalties for sexual assault, and four of the woman’s attackers were sentenced to death by hanging. | The report of the attack comes after a year of intense national focus on the problem of sexual violence, set off by a brutal attack on a 23-year-old physiotherapy student in New Delhi in December 2012. The victim, who had boarded a private bus along with a male friend, was gang-raped and brutalized with a metal rod and later died from her injuries. Amid widespread outrage over the attack, India’s Parliament stiffened penalties for sexual assault, and four of the woman’s attackers were sentenced to death by hanging. |
| Although the per capita rate of rapes reported to the police in India is below that of many developed nations, some experts believe that many sexual attacks go unreported and that the actual number is far higher. | Although the per capita rate of rapes reported to the police in India is below that of many developed nations, some experts believe that many sexual attacks go unreported and that the actual number is far higher. |
| Tourism figures dropped noticeably in the wake of the 2012 gang rape, with visits by women dropping 35 percent in the three months that followed it, according to the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India. | Tourism figures dropped noticeably in the wake of the 2012 gang rape, with visits by women dropping 35 percent in the three months that followed it, according to the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India. |
| A series of attacks on tourists have been reported in the meantime. In March last year a group of men raped a 39-year-old Swiss tourist and attacked her husband as the couple camped during a bicycle trip across Madhya Pradesh. Six men received life sentences in the crime. | |
| Earlier this month, a 33-year-old Polish woman reported to the police that she was drugged and raped by a taxi driver who offered to drive her to Delhi from a nearby district along with her two-year-old daughter, local media reported. | |
| Additionally, an 18-year-old German woman told the police that she had been assaulted in the sleeping compartment of a train headed for Chennai. Though she made the report several days after the encounter, too late to gather medical evidence in the case, a man from Bihar has been arrested in connection with the crime, Seema Agarwal, a police inspector general, told NDTV. |