A Danish woman has been gang-raped in New Delhi after getting lost and asking a group of men for directions.
The case is the latest in a string of high-profile sex assaults against women in the country.
The 51-year-old woman was attacked late on Tuesday at knife-point by the group of more than six men after losing her way to her hotel in a popular backpacker area of the Indian capital, according to local media reports.
"She lost her way when this incident happened. Currently, the concerned police team has identified suspects and is interrogating them," Delhi police spokesman Rajan Bhagat told AFP.
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told her friend about the attack when she eventually reached her hotel in Paharganj near the city's central Connaught Place, Bhagat said.
The woman had approached the group for directions near the New Delhi Railway Station after visiting a city museum, but they took her to a secluded spot before raping her at knifepoint, the Press Trust of India news agency reported, citing unnamed police sources.
The Danish embassy did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The case comes weeks after a Polish woman was allegedly drugged and raped by a taxi driver while travelling with her two-year-old daughter to New Delhi.
Last month India marked the first anniversary of the death of a student who was gang-raped on a moving Delhi bus in an attack that sent shockwaves across the nation.
The gang-rape triggered massive protests over the levels of violence against women, but in the past 12 months reported cases of local and foreign women being attacked have shot up significantly.
A judge last month sentenced three Nepalese men to 20 years in jail for the gang-rape of a US tourist in June in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh.
Six men were sentenced to life in prison last July for the gang-rape and robbery of a 39-year-old Swiss woman cyclist who had been holidaying in the central state of Madhya Pradesh.
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