English woman, 24, stabbed to death by Dutch tourist

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Police in India have arrested a Dutch man in connection to the stabbing death of an English woman early Saturday.

Richard de Wit, 43, was detained at 4:30 a.m. when officers pulled over a taxi in Qazigund, about 50 miles northwest of Srinagar, where 24-year-old Sarah Groves was murdered in a houseboat, according to The Telegraph.

"The Dutch national had fled from the houseboat in the night, leaving behind his belongings," said Abdul Ghani Mir, the Inspector General of Kashmir. "He was trying to flee from the Valley, carrying only his passport. We flashed an alert for his arrest."

Again: Swiss tourist gang-raped in India

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A Swiss woman who was on a cycling trip in central India with her husband has been gang-raped by eight men, police said today. The attack comes three months after the fatal gang-rape of a woman aboard a New Delhi bus outraged Indians.

Authorities detained and questioned 13 men in connection with the latest attack, which occurred Friday night as the couple camped out in a forest in Madhya Pradesh state after bicycling from the temple town of Orchha, local police officer R.K. Gurjar said.

The men beat the couple and gang-raped the woman, he said. They also stole the couple's mobile phone, a laptop computer and 10,000 rupees ($185).