russellbradnapphotgs.jpg Russell Brand's bodyguards assaulted four news photographers this morning at an Indian tiger reserve, reports the Associated Press.

The photographers work for AP, Reuters, Agence France-Presse and the Hindustan Times newspaper, and they said Brand watched as one of the guards "came up to their jeep, punched their driver in the face and grabbed the vehicle's keys." AP photographer Mustafa Quraishi said he jumped out of the car 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 tried to help Quraishi, but the other guard began hitting them, and it sounds like one man sustained substantial injuries to the head. The bodyguards then left the photographers stranded in the park (which is home to tigers, leopards and hyenas, oh my!) but luckily rangers found the keys and helped the photographers out.

The news photographers were about 330 feet behind two jeeps -- one carrying Brand, a woman who was not his fiancee Katy Perry, a man and two children, and the other carrying two bodyguards.

Brand and Perry are set to get married tomorrow at the Taj Rambagh Palace.