Male hitchhikers face a new threat in Zimbabwe from women who are abducting and raping them for ritual purposes. Six men have been gang-raped by women in the last 11 months in a phenomenon that has tongues wagging in this deeply conservative society. Police say the figure could be much higher as the victims are often too embarrassed to report the crime. In ADVERTISEMENT the most recent case, a 26-year-old policeman from Bulawayo was drugged and raped by three women, the official Chronicle daily reported. The man was offered a lift in a minibus with three female passengers. "When he sat down, one of the passengers suddenly put a cloth saturated with a drug on his nose and he passed out," the paper said. He regained consciousness to find the three women sexually abusing him. He was eventually abandoned outside the city, minus his mobile phone and $30. "Clues given by the victim are being followed up," said police spokesman Bekimpilo Ndlovu. Similar attacks have been r...
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