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Targeted: Male hitchhikers are being drugged and sexually assaulted by women in parts of Zimbabwe, including Harare and Gweru town (file picture)
Police investigating a spate of 'ritualistic' kidnappings and sex attacks on male hitchhikers have arrested three women.
Detectives in Gweru, Zimbabwe, seized 33 used condoms from a suspect vehicle following reports of attacks on men seeking lifts in the town, as well as Harare and Mashonaland West.
Reports in Zimbabwe have described the alarming trend of male hitchhikers being offered lifts, but then being drugged and driven to secluded spots by female attackers.
The men are then forced into sex with the women, sometimes unprotected and at gunpoint, before the female rapists collect their semen and dump victims by the roadside.
According to the NewZimbabwe.com, three women have been arrested after police found 33 condoms in a vehicle in Lower Gweru last Sunday.
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