American woman gang-raped in Manali

NEW DELHI (AP):An American woman was gang-raped yesterday in the northern Indian resort town of Manali, the police have said.

The 30-year-old woman was picked up early yesterday morning by men in a truck as she was hitchhiking back to her guest house after visiting a friend, police officer Sher Singh said.

The three men in the truck then drove to a secluded spot and raped her, he said. She went to the police and they filed a rape case.

No arrests had been made up to yesterday, according to Singh.

Authorities issued an alert for the three men and set up roadblocks to check any trucks leaving the town, he said.

The reported rape came after a Swiss tourist was gang-raped in March while on a cycling trip through rural India. Six men were arrested in that attack. In a separate incident the same month, a British woman travelling in northern India jumped out of the third-floor window of her hotel room fearing a sexual attack after the hotel's owner tried to force his way into the room.