A group of foreign tourists, including women, was allegedly beaten up, molested in Ahraura area of Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh by local boys.
Eight persons have been arrested in connection with the attack on French nationals. However, police claimed that a woman from Varanasi, and not foreign nationals, were beaten up and molested by a group of miscreants. The injured tourists were shifted to the Mirzapur hospital for further treatment.
“The vehicle by which she had come here carried about half a dozen French tourists,” said Praveen Singh, Station House Officer of Ahraura police station.
“Some of the local boys abused, molested and thrashed all the tourists. When I tried to stop the attackers, they also started thrashing me. The attackers called more people to attack us. In defense, we also started attacking them,”Riya Dutt, an Indian friend of French tourist told.
The four accused have been identified as Deepak, Prabhat, Vivek and Imran, all aged between 24-25 years and residents of Varanasi. The other accused are yet to be identified. “The accused did not assault the French tourists. However, some blood may have fallen on them when they tried to intervene,” Ahraura police officer Praveen Kumar told
This is not the first time, Recently a German was beaten up by a man at a railway Station in Sonbhadra district of UP because he unintentionally ignored a man’s greeting. On October 26, a Swiss couple was attacked by a group of men in Agra’s Fatehpur Sikri.
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