NEW DELHI – A 33-year-old Latvian who had traveled to India was drugged,raped and then beheaded.

Skromane travelled to India all the way from Ireland, seeking treatment forchronic depression. It was here that she was drugged, raped and beheaded,before her body was found hanging in a forest.

The woman was Latvian but had been living in Dublin with her partner sincethe past five years. She arrived in Kerala in February and was onlyaccompanied by her sister.

According to *NDTV*, Skromane was looking forward to receiving traditionalayurvedic therapy which is much flouted across the world. However, she wentmissing just a few weeks after her arrival. She was last reported to havebeen visiting a beach after visiting the Ayurvedic centre.

The body of the deceased Latvian medical tourist, was found decomposingnear a mangrove forest in Thiruvallam on April 21.

On the day of her funeral, the police disclosed the findings of theirinvestigation, stating that she was lured by two men who drugged her,sexually assaulted and then killed her.

The police reported that the two suspects are in custody. They were bothprofiled as drug pushers and one of them is a repeat offender with ahistory of sexually abusing men and women in the area where Skromane’s bodywas found, sources told *NDTV*.