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Magaluf is a popular holiday destination in the Spanish island of Majorca

By Guy Hedgecoe

Madrid

Eight men suspected of gang-raping an 18-year-old British woman in Majorca were not all known to each other, Spanish police have said.

Five French and one Swiss tourist were arrested on suspicion of sexual assault and violation of the right to privacy earlier this month.

Two more men, both residents in France, were arrested in that country this week and are awaiting extradition.

The alleged attack is said to have taken place in the resort of Magaluf.

"Of the eight [suspects], some knew each other, they weren't all strangers," said a spokesman for the civil guard. "But it was not one group of friends."

The alleged victim is thought to have met a group of young tourists in the early hours of 14 August.

She is believed to have followed them to their hotel, where she was forced to have sexual intercourse and was filmed by the alleged aggressors.