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DELHI — A Danish woman has been held at knifepoint, beaten and gang-raped in the centre of New Delhi’s backpacker district after asking a group of young men for directions to her hotel.

Police said the 51-year-old tourist was attacked on Tuesday in the latest in a series of rapes that have shocked India.

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It came as the family of a 16-year-old girl who was allegedly twice gang-raped and later murdered in Calcutta called for the High Court to order an inquiry into her killing.

Women’s rights campaigners said that, despite the widespread protests provoked by the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old Delhi student just over a year ago, police were still failing to provide protection and implement new tougher laws to curb the assaults.

The Danish woman had arrived in Delhi after visiting the Taj Mahal in Agra and was attacked as she made her way back to her hotel in Parhaganj, close to New Delhi railway station, after visiting the national museum.