Horror start to new year
2003-01-01 17:38
Johannesburg - A 29-year-old East Rand woman was gang-raped twice in the early hours of New Year's Day - first by two knife-wielding attackers and again by five other armed men as she was on her way to report the first attack.
East Rand police spokesperson Superintendent Andy Pieke says the woman was walking with a male friend in the township of Dikatole just after midnight on Wednesday when they were approached by the two men armed with knives.
The friend apparently fled, and the two men dragged the woman away from the road and raped her.
When they had left she walked to the local police station to report the matter, but on the way she was attacked again by five men armed with knives and firearms. All five raped her and fled.
Police are investigating, says Pieke.
In another incident around 00:45 on Wednesday near the Gonogeng Primary School in Kwa-Thema, a 21-year-old woman was walking home with eight men.
She told police that all eight men raped her, and supplied the names of two of them.
- SAPA