NEW DELHI — The woman in the Instagram video appeared shaken. Her face was swollen and bruised. Sitting beside her husband, she began recounting her ordeal.
“Something happened to us that we wouldn’t wish on anyone,” she said in Spanish, with captions in English. “Seven men raped me, and they have beaten us and robbed us.”
In the video that has since been deleted, the woman said the assault on her and her Brazilian partner — both travel bloggers — took place in a forest late Friday in eastern Jharkhand state’s Dumka district where they were camping on their way to neighboring Nepal. She said seven men held knives to their throats and took turns sexually assaulting her.
The couple, who had been documenting their trip for more than 200,000 followers on an Instagram account, were found by a police patrol van which took them to a hospital, where the woman told the doctor she had been raped.
Police in Jharkhand confirmed the incident and arrested three men over the…