Warning: Graphic descriptions of sexual violence.

A picturesque journey day in India was a nightmare for a touring influencer couple who was brutally attacked by a gang of assailants who allegedly took turns raping the girl, native police stated Saturday.

Fernanda and Vicente, who doc their world travels by bike for an viewers of greater than 140,000 Instagram followers, had been passing by way of the Dumka district in India on their approach to Nepal once they had been viciously attacked. They had stopped in Dumka to camp there in a tent in a single day, a number of shops reported.

In movies posted to Instagram, the couple appeared with swollen, purple bruises on every of their faces and began to tear up as they recounted in Spanish what occurred to them.

“Something has happened to us that we would not wish on anyone,” Fernanda stated within the video, “seven men have raped me, they have beaten us and robbed us.” She added that the attackers didn’t steal many issues, nevertheless, “because what they wanted was to rape me.”

Police stated Fernanda reached a patrol van round 11 p.m. and was taken to the hospital for remedy, based on native experiences. Pitamber Singh Kherwar, the police superintendent of the district, stated they’d arrested three folks in reference to the assault and had been actively looking for extra.

In one other submit, Vicente confirmed viewers his busted lip and stitches throughout his mouth. “My mouth is destroyed, but Fernanda is worse than me,” he stated, including that the attackers had repeatedly hit him with a helmet and a rock to the top.

The case thrust India’s horrifying file of sexual violence into the highlight. The nation is taken into account one of many worst for sexual violence in opposition to ladies and had almost 90 reported rapes per day in 2022, based on the National Crime Records Bureau. But rapes typically go underreported due to victim-shaming and low religion in legislation enforcement outcomes.

In Fernanda and Vicente’s most up-to-date posts as of Saturday, they stated they remained within the hospital with police. The investigation is ongoing.