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NEW DELHI — A photojournalist has been gang-raped while working on an assignment in a middle-class suburb of Mumbai.

The 22-year-old victim, a lifestyle magazine intern who was working on her first piece, was attacked on Thursday night. One man was arrested and police are searching for four other suspects.

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The attack has reignited the disgust felt by Indians last year when Jyoti Singh Pandey, a 23-year-old student, was gang raped and murdered on a bus in Delhi, which prompted demonstrations and nationwide soul-searching.

The Mumbai victim was with a male colleague in Lower Parel, a former industrial area, when she was harassed by two men who attacked and tied up her male colleague when he objected.

According to police, the woman was dragged into a derelict mill where she was assaulted and raped by five men, believed to be drug addicts. A spokesman said the victim was working on an article about the area. “They were confronted by some men, who asked the woman photographer whether she had permission to take pictures of the mill compound,” the spokesman said.