The police have arrested eight people in connection with the abduction and gang rape of two orchestra dancers at gunpoint in Kushinagar district of Uttar Pradesh, news agency PTI reported. The accused perpetrators forced the two women into their vehicles and took them to a house where the crime was committed, the police said.

The women were abducted at gunpoint from a house under the Ramkola police station jurisdiction on Monday night, according to the Uttar Pradesh Police.