A female tourist was reportedly raped and murdered by three men at a resort in the Philippines after attending a wedding there.

Michaela Mickova, 23, a Slovak carer living in Berlin, Germany, had travelled to the paradise island of Boracay to attend a friend’s wedding on March 8.

‘She wrote to me how happy she was,’ another friend said. But two days later, Michaela suddenly disappeared.

She was last seen around 1pm wearing a red top and green hat, according to a missing person’s poster police handed out, offering a reward of £670 for information to locate Michaela.

Michaela was found dead on March 12, with her body lying half-naked in an abandoned chapel on the Philippines island.

‘She was the victim of a horrific crime,’ her friend said. The coroner said she was raped and beaten to death, according to local media.

Three men are now in custody after the first one, aged 28, was arrested by chance during a drug raid and told on his two accomplices while in prison, the Philippine Star reports.

The man said the trio met Michaela as she was taking photos on the night she died. The men then reportedly beat her unconscious with a piece of wood, dragged her into the abandoned chapel and raped her there before getting a drink together.