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Two cousins gang-raped by nine men

By CHRISTINA KOH

IPOH: Two cousins thought they were in for a romantic night with their boyfriends but it became a nightmare when their boyfriends and seven friends gang-raped them and abandoned them.

Gerik OCPD Supt Mahad Nor Abdullah said the boyfriends, in their 20s, had picking up the girls from their homes in Kati, Kuala Kangsar, last Wednesday.

The girls, aged 16 and 17, were taken to a picnic spot at Lata Lawin, about 20km from Gerik, where seven others waiting for them at a gazebo at about 10pm.

"These seven turned out to be friends of the two boyfriends. We believe they had planned all along to rape the girls," he said Sunday.

Each 'boyfriend', he said, forced himself on a girl before passing her on to his friends.

The girls' ordeal dragged on to the next day before the nine abandoned them. Several villagers found them and sent them home at about 7am.

The girls, who are school dropouts, lodged police reports at the Kati police station on Friday.

Supt Mahad Nor said three suspects, including the boyfriends, had been picked up at their homes in Kuala Kangsar and Gerik.

"We are tracing the other six men, who are all in their 20s," he said.