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"The 30-year-old was raped by men in a truck on Monday night. They offered her a lift and she accepted it," police Inspector Abhimanyu Kumar told AFP from Manali, a tourist destination in the foothills of the Himalayas.
Kumar said medical tests confirmed the tourist was raped and police were hunting for the accused in the Manali area, some 500 kilometres (300 miles) from the capital New Delhi.
The woman was on a holiday with three other Americans and was returning to her guest house alone after bathing at a hot water spring.
The natural water spring, called "Vashist", is a tourist spot renowned for its temples and bathing tanks.
"The victim's friends wanted to spend more time at the spring but she was tired and decided to walk alone to the guest house," Dhawan added.
More than 2,000 trucks a day ply the Manali highway which connects the town with remote Himalayan villages.
Police put her in touch with the US embassy officials in New Delhi.
"We are in contact with authorities but due to issues of privacy we have no further comment," a US embassy spokesperson told AFP.
The incident comes a day after police in eastern India arrested a local businessman for allegedly drugging and raping an Irish woman after her birthday party at the weekend.
A survey by a trade body earlier this year found the number of foreign women tourists visiting India had dropped by 35 percent following several sex attacks that have made global headlines.
New measures passed by Indian lawmakers in March increased punishments for sex offenders to include the death penalty if a victim dies and a minimum 20-year prison sentence for gang-rape.
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