Indian police said they arrested five men Sunday in connection with the gang rape of a Swiss woman who on a cycling holiday with her husband in Central India was.
All five men admitted to the attack, which occurred Friday night as the woman and her spouse camped in a forest in Datia district of Madhya Pradesh State, said d. k. Arya, a police officer. Another police officer said earlier that six men had been arrested.
Arya said police were looking for two more men involved in the attack.
The couple told police that the woman had been raped by seven or eight men, but that it was dark and they can not sure of the exact number, said Arya. They said the man was attacked by the men.
The woman, 39, Saturday was treated in a hospital in the nearby town of Gwalior and was released later that day, police said.
The pair were planning to later Sunday a trip to the capital New Delhi, India, police said.
The attack came three months after the fatal gang rape of a woman on board a bus from New Delhi Indians in turmoil and the Government urged to pass laws to protect women.
Prior to the attack, the couple, who were on a three-month holiday in India, Orchha had visited the temple city and were planning to cycling to Agra to visit the Taj Mahal, nearly 210 kilometers (130 miles) away.
They set out of Orchha on Friday and pitched their tent in a forest near Jatia village when they were attacked by a group of men armed with wooden sticks, police said.
The men beat up the man, tied him to a tree and then raped the woman, police said. They also stole the few mobile phone, a laptop computer and 10,000 rupees ($ 185).
The Swiss Ambassador in India, Linus von Castelmur, said he spoke with the couple and assured them of the Swiss Government help and support.
The Swiss Embassy said "their health and treatment is the priority of the moment," in a statement.
The Embassy said it was in contact with the authorities in Madhya Pradesh and has requested a "quick research and for justice."
India's national crime Records Bureau's figures show that a woman is raped every 20 minutes in India. However, many cases of rape and other sexual crimes unreported due to the stigma attached to such crimes in the conservative country. India's conviction rate for rape and other crimes against women is one of the lowest in the world.
Last month, the Swiss Government issued a travel notice for India that a warning about "ever more rapes and other sexual offences" in the South Asian nation and included the latest incident may warn other countries similar asked.
Representatives of business travel in India said the incident, in the months just after the December gang rape in New Delhi, would affect tourism.
"Such incidents will surely have a negative impact on tourism. It is very regrettable, "said Subhash Goyal, head of the Indian Association of tour operators.
According to the Government statistics about 6.5 million foreign tourists visited India in 2011, generating about $ 120 billion for the travel and hospitality sector of the nation.
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