A foreign woman from Thailand was shot in the chest in Udaipur city on Saturday, said police, adding that the investigation is on to ascertain the intent of the crime and the miscreants behind it.

Officials said that the woman was left in a hospital by three boys who later fled.

Considering the case suspicious, the injured was referred to Maharana Bhupal Government Hospital (MB).

The woman, identified as Thogkot, is a resident of Thailand. She was staying at Hotel Veer Palace in Udaipur. Thogkot (24) left the hotel at 1.30 a.m. early on Saturday, got into a taxi and left.

In yet another shootout in the national Capital, one person was killed and another injured when assailants opened fire at them in Kabir Nagar in Delhi early on Saturday.

The incident occurred in the Welcome police station area in Kabir Nagar when the victim was having food at his home in the wee hours of Saturday.

The deceased has been identified as Nadeem.

Five rounds of bullets were fired at the victim by the assailants, leading to Nadeem's death on the spot and injury to a minor. Another person who was with the victim at the time of the shootout escaped unhurt.

The motorcycle-borne assailants barged into Nadeem's house in the wee hours of Saturday, committed the crime and escaped on the victim's scooty.

Three persons have been arrested here for allegedly raping a woman hailing from Odisha and then abandoning her in the national capital's Sarai Kale Khan area last month, the police said on Thursday.

The arrested individuals were identified as Prabhu Mahto - an auto rickshaw driver, Parmod Babu, and Mohammad Shamsul.

The incident came to light in the early hours of October 11 when a call was received by the police at around 3.15 a.m. about a woman, who was bleeding, lying on the roadside in the Sarai Kale Khan area.

Three people were arrested on Thursday on the charges of defrauding a man of Rs 92 lakh, Tamil Nadu Cyber Crime Branch Police said.

The arrested individuals were identified as Nitish Kumar and Chandrashekhar from Namakkal, and Suresh from Coimbatore.

Police officials revealed that in the past too, the suspects had been involved in similar criminal activities.

The man was lured by a Facebook advertisement promoting a high-profit online trading scheme.

An elderly woman was killed and three other people were injured in a crash involving a car that was allegedly stolen at gunpoint in Australia.

Police in the northeastern state of Queensland said in a statement that a 69-year-old woman died when an allegedly stolen blue Audi being driven by a 16-year-old boy crashed into her vehicle, north of the state capital of Brisbane on Thursday morning.

Emergency services were called to the scene of the crash in Murrumba Downs, approximately 20 km north of central Brisbane, at about 9.45 a.m. local time.

Police officers and paramedics commenced CPR on the 69-year-old woman but were unable to revive her, and she was pronounced dead at the scene.

The 16-year-old was arrested at the scene and was taken to hospital with significant leg injuries, news agency reported.

An incident of a woman being allegedly sexually harassed by a bicycle rider while live vlogging was reported in an upscale BTM Layout in Bengaluru on Wednesday.

The victim said that she raised an alarm and thrashed the accused. The incident had taken place on Monday night and the victim released a video message of the incident on Wednesday.

She added that the people who gathered around demanded proof of harassment from her.

A man has been arrested after he allegedly stabbed multiple people at a shopping centre in Melbourne on Tuesday.

Police in the state of Victoria said in a statement that emergency services were called to the Fountain Gate shopping centre in Melbourne's southeast at about 2:25 p.m. local time on Tuesday following reports that three people were attacked at a bus stop.

The three victims, two men and a woman, were taken to a nearby hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, news agency reported.

Local media reported that they were slashed with a box cutter.

Police said that the alleged perpetrator, a 30-year-old local man, fled the scene but was later arrested inside the shopping centre.

Tension is prevailing at Raidighi in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district after a person was hacked to death by his nephew at a busy market place on Tuesday morning, police said.

The deceased has been identified as Sheikh Bahadur, 45, and the accused is his nephew Shahadat Sheikh.

The assailant is absconding and the police have started the process of tracking and nabbing him. As per statements given by the family members of the victim as well as the local people, a family feud was the reason behind the brutal killing.

A temple in Shamshabad on the outskirts of Hyderabad was vandalised on Tuesday, police said.

When the priest of the temple in Airport Colony came in the morning to perform daily rituals, he found idols vandalised.

Alerted by the priest and the locals, the police rushed to the spot and began investigations. The police suspect the miscreants entered the temple and vandalised it late Monday night.

On receiving the information, local BJP leaders also reached the temple and demanded stringent punishment for those involved.

The police have reportedly picked up a suspect and were questioning him.

Despite the heightened vigilance and intensified campaign, drug peddling in the northeastern states remains unabated as narcotic substances valued at Rs 3.75 crore, smuggled from Myanmar, have been seized in Tripura, the police said on Monday.

A police officer said that acting on secret information, the Tripura Police intercepted a car in the Panisagar area, adding a total of 1,50,000 highly addictive Yaba tablets valued at Rs 3.75 crore were recovered from the vehicle.

Police also arrested the driver and seized the vehicle.

"The drugs were smuggled from Myanmar and through Mizoram and southern Assam, the contraband entered Tripura. The drugs were intended to be smuggled to Bangladesh, where the Yaba tablets are very popular among drug-addicts," a police officer said.