'Nobody helped us for an hour,' Indian rape witness says

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Indian authorities have filed rape and murder charges against five men accused of the gang rape of a woman on a New Delhi bus. Government officials have promised new measures to protect women in the nation's capital and the crime has sparked protests and raised demands for tough new rape laws. ITN's Geraint Vincent reports.By ReutersPassers-by left a gang-raped Indian student lying unclothed and bleeding  in the street for almost an hour, a male friend who was assaulted with  her said on Friday in his first public comments on the case that  provoked a global outcry.

The 23-year-old student died in the  hospital two weeks after she was attacked on Dec. 16 in a private  bus in New Delhi, prompting street protests over the Indian authorities'  failure to stem rampant violence against women.

Follow @NBCNewsWorldThe graphic  account from the man in a television interview is likely to add fuel to  public anger over the death in a country where official statistics show  one rape is reported every 20 minutes.

The woman's friend told  the Zee News television network he was beaten unconscious with a metal  bar by her attackers before the pair were thrown off the bus.

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