Eight people have been arrested for allegedly assaulting a group of French tourists and their Indian friends in Ahraura area of Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh, on Sunday evening, reported ANI.

The tourists were visiting a waterfall with employees of a Varanasi hospital when a group of men forcibly started taking selfies with them and harassed the women, the Hindustan Times reported. A fight broke out, and one of the hospital employees suffered severe injuries to his head. The tourists only suffered minor scratches as they tried to stop the fight, NDTV reported.

The injured people were taken to a local hospital. One of the tourists said they were attacked with sticks.

“Some of the local boys abused, molested and thrashed all the tourists,” an Indian friend of the tourists told ANI. “When I tried to stop the attackers, they also started thrashing me. The attackers called more people to attack us. In defence, we also started attacking them.”

A case was registered against 13 people.

This is the second such attack in the state in the last two months. On October 24, a Swiss couple was attacked at Fatehpur Sikri in Agra. Quentin Jeremy Clerc’s skull was fractured and his hearing had been affected, while Marie Droze was left with a broken arm after they were attacked by five people, including three minors, when they were walking along a train track in Fatehpur Sikri. The attackers also hurled stones at the couple but did not rob them.