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Photographers say Brand's guards assaulted them

Published:Saturday | October 23, 2010 | 12:00 AM
British actor-comedian Russell Brand (left) walks with his fiancée, Katy Perry (face covered with a coat), after their arrival at the airport in Jaipur, India. Brand and Perry are reportedly to be married later this week in the northern Indian town of Jaipur. - AP photos

RANTHAMBHORE NATIONAL PARK, India (AP): News photographers say bodyguards for Russell Brand assaulted them as they shot pictures of the British comedian touring a national park in India before his wedding to Katy Perry.

The photographers say they were in a jeep behind Brand's on Friday when two bodyguards jumped out of their own jeep and began punching them and their driver.

snatched keys

The photographers say bodyguards snatched the keys to the photographers' car, stranding them in Ranthambhore tiger sanctuary. They say Brand watched.

The four photographers work for The Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France-Presse and the Hindustan Times newspaper.

Brand and pop singer Perry are in India for their wedding planned for today.