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A female tourist has been kidnapped, raped and robbed on a minibus in Rio de Janeiro, police have said today. A male foreign tourist was also held captive and robbed on the minibus according to Rio police. It comes amid security concerns in the Brazilian city that will host matches in the 2014 World Cup and the Summer Olympics two years later. Police said they would not release the nationalities or anything which would identify the victims. Local reports have suggested the woman was American. CNN reports that the woman and man boarded the minibus in the Copacabana beach district in Rio de Janeiro early on Saturday. Three men then boarded the minibus and forced all the other passengers off, Rio police said. It is said that the woman was raped, and both of the two passengers' credit cards were used at a number of locations inside and outside of Rio de Janeiro the next few hours, police said in a statement.Brazilian newspapers have reported that the man was handcuffed and beaten, while the woman was repeatedly raped. After six hours, the pair where then left in Itaborai, a city more than 30 miles, the O Globo newspaper reports. Rio police said two men have been arrested -- Jonathan Foudakis de Souza, 20, and Wallace Aparecido Souza Silva, 22. They are also looking for a third man in relation to the crime. Multiple calls to the police seeking further detail today have not been returned.A Brazilian woman who was raped a week earlier has also identified the suspects, police said. It comes after Rio de Janeiro launched a citywide campaign by police and army troops against drug-fueled violence and crime. It will arget the shantytowns ahead of high profile events due later this year. Pope Francis' first big international trip will be to Rio in July when he is expected to lead millions of young people in celebration of World Youth Day. The city will also stage many of the key matches when Brazil hosts the World Cup next year, and it will be the host for the Olympic Games in 2016. It comes as some Brazilian media have drawn comparisons with the incident and the high-profile rape and murder of a young woman in New Delhi The 23-year-old university student was gang raped on a bus in the heart of the Indian capital and later died of her internal injuries.