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CHENNAI/TIRUVANNAMALAI: A 21-year-old Russian woman was allegedly drugged and gang-raped in a service apartment on a visit to the pilgrimage town of Tiruvannamalai , around 190km southwest of Chennai, police said on Tuesday.

Investigators detained six men for questioning after one of them took the unconscious woman to a hospital on Monday evening and a doctor who examined her alerted the Tiruvannamalai Town police.

Sub-inspector J Illavarasi registered a case under Indian Penal Code Section 376 (rape) and Section 511 (punishment for attempting to commit offences punishable with imprisonment for life or other imprisonment) and police have started an investigation.

Police identified four of the six detained as Dharani alias Bharathy, 31, and his brother Neelakandan, 35, of Vedanatham, and Manikandan, 37, and Venkatesan, 39, of Tiruvannamalai town.

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