Katy Perry and fiancee Russell Brand are in India for their wedding ceremony this weekend and while there, their security team took issue with the photographers following them around.

Reportedly, as the photographers tailed the happy couple through an animal park, their bodyguards lashed out at the snappers, beating the crap out of them.

According to reports, photographers from AP, Reuters, Agence France-Presse and the Hindustand Times newspaper were trying to get photos of the couple, but were punched in the face by bodyguards. They claimed the bodyguards approached their vehicle and started punching the driver’s lights out.

MSNBC reports:

Quraishi said he jumped out of the jeep to try to retrieve the keys, but the bodyguard punched him repeatedly, breaking his glasses, smashing and then taking his camera flash and opening up a cut on his arm.

Two other photographers came to Quraishi’s assistance, he said, but the other guard began hitting them, causing one to start bleeding from the head.

The guards then drove away, leaving the photographers stranded in the park, which is home to tigers, leopards, wild boars, hyenas and sloth bears, Quraishi said.

Park rangers later retrieved the keys from the guards’ driver.

Wow, now that’s just madness. The paparazzi can be a pain in the neck, but there’s no cause for physical violence. They’re only doing their jobs.

source: Photographers say Brand’s friend assaulted them – [msnbc]