Three suspects have been arrested following the rape and robbery of eight women while they were shooting a music video near an old unused mining dump in West Village, Krugersdorp, on Thursday. According to Police Minister Bheki Cele, a manhunt is underway to look for more suspects believed to have been part of the gang…
Three suspects have been arrested following the rape and robbery of eight women while they were shooting a music video near an old unused mining dump in West Village, Krugersdorp, on Thursday.
According to Police Minister Bheki Cele, a manhunt is underway to look for more suspects believed to have been part of the gang that attacked the film crew.
“It was 22 people; 12 women and 10 men. Two hours after they had arrived the men attacked them and they tried to run away. They shot at them and forced them to lie down,” Cele said during the ANC national policy conference at Nasrec in Johannesburg.
“And then 10 other similar men came and they started to rape them, eight women were raped.”
The women are believed to be from Alexandra and Soweto.
Cele said three of the women were gang raped. One was raped by 10 men “simultaneously, exchanging on her”, another by eight men and the last one by six. He also said the women ranged from 19 to 35 years old.
It is believed that the men robbed the victims of their clothes, cellphones, rings, passports, watches, handbags, cash, camera and other valuables to the value of at least R1.5 million.
“That’s a bad situation; most of them are young girls around Johannesburg. And their job, they look like models who were just there to make this music video,” Cele added.
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Gauteng police commissioner Lieutenant-General Elias Mawela said he mobilised maximum resources to hunt down the perpetrators. The police have opened cases of rape and armed robbery.
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