India, Dec. 5 -- Two labourers allegedly raped an 18-year-old woman on Thursday evening and threw her into a water tank in Rajasthan's Bikaner when her mother arrived to save her, police said.

"The two labourers were working in the field near the woman's house. They had asked for some tea from her mother," Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) of Bikaner's Sridungargarh, Niket Pareek, said.

DSP Pareek said that although she refused them initially, later, the woman and her mother invited them for a cup of tea in view of the lowering temperature at night.

Police said that the deceased's mother prepared the tea inside the kitchen and asked her to serve it to the men sitting outside.

"A few moments later, her mother heard her crying for h...