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Sunday, October 3, 2010

Filipina gang-raped by 17 men in Kuwait

KUWAIT CITY -- A runaway Philippine maid in the Gulf emirate of Kuwait was abducted and gang-raped by 17 men in desert camps, a newspaper reported Saturday, adding that 14 suspects were in custody.

Four men found the Filipina after she fled her employer's house and took her to a desert camp where they raped her, the Al-Watan daily said citing a security source.

They then offered the maid to six of their friends who raped her at a second camp before delivering her to seven others who gang-raped her at a third camp.

She was taken to hospital by Philippine consular officials, the paper said. The embassy was not immediately available for comment.

Police have detained 14 suspects so far -- 13 Kuwaitis and one Iraqi, Al-Watan said. A manhunt is continuing for three other Kuwaitis.

More than 70,000 Filipinos live and work in oil-rich Kuwait, many of them as domestic servants. - Agence France-Presse/INQUIRER.NET, December 23, 2006

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