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Australian's murder sees three arrested
Saturday, 11 October, 2008
Three people arrested on suspicion of murdering an Australian tourist in the Indian resort state of Goa were remanded in police custody for a week, police said.
The two waiters and a security guard from a beach bar in Calangute, about 10km from the state capital Panaji, were detained for questioning on Wednesday after 65-year-old John Kelly died in hospital.
He had earlier been involved in a bar brawl, which police said was sparked after he complained about the way his beer was served.
Police in Goa have said they intend to get tough on drink, drugs and loud music this tourist season to restore the destination's reputation after the murder earlier this year of a British teenager.
Nearly three million tourists, including 400,000 foreigners, flock to the former Portuguese colony every year, drawn by its climate and reputation as a centre of the hippie counter-culture in the 1960s and 1970s.
Source: AAP
