Israeli tourist and local woman raped in India: police

A man has been killed and an Israeli female tourist and Indian woman were gang-raped by three men in an attack near a popular UNESCO World Heritage site in southern India, local police say.

The Indian man and two women were stargazing with two other male tourists in the town of Hampi when the three men attacked them following an altercation over money, police superintendent Ram Arasiddi told Reuters over the phone.

The assailants pushed the men into a river canal before raping the women, he said.

Two of the men, including a US citizen, survived and the third man's body was recovered on Saturday morning.

Police have arrested two of the men accused of the attack and were carrying out further investigations, Arasiddi said.

Attacks on women in India gained international attention last year after the brutal rape-homicide of a junior doctor at a hospital in the eastern city of Kolkata, sparking outrage and protests across the country over a lack of safety for women.

with AP