A bus carrying foreign tourists was allegedly attacked with stones by unidentified persons on Holi in Shahpur area of the city, police said on Saturday. The tourists were on a pilgrimage tour to Buddhist circuit when they came under the attack yesterday, police said. The driver said the tourists, mostly from Australia and China, began their tour from Delhi last week. There has been spate of attacks on foreigners in Uttar Pradesh in the recent past. In October last year, a young Swiss tourist couple was attacked by five youths in Agra's Fatehpur Sikri in Uttar Pradesh leaving them battered and bruised after which all of them were nabbed.

Source: dna March 03, 2018 16:30 UTC