Five charity workers abducted and gang-raped in India
The number of sex attacks in the country has risen, with some 39,000 rape cases reported nationally in 2016
Five women working for a charity in remote eastern India were abducted and gang-raped at gunpoint, police said on Friday, in the latest horrific sex assault in the country.
The women said in their complaint they were performing a play to raise awareness about human trafficking in the largely tribal Khunti district of Jharkhand state on Tuesday when they were abducted.
The assailants shot videos of the attack and threatened the women if they went to the police.
The women worked for the non-governmental organisation Asha Kiran, which is supported by a local Christian missionary group, police officer Rajesh Prasad said.
“We have been questioning several people,” Prasad said.