Malaysian police have arrested at least 13 people – many of who are related – over the alleged gang-rape of a 15-year-old girl, according to media reports.
The girl was raped on May 20 for hours by a group of men in an abandoned hut in the northern state of Kelantan, local media reports said. Police are still investigating whether her 17-year-old friend was also raped and how many men were involved in the assault after initial reports stated almost 40 took turns in the gang-rape.
All those detained are from the same village, where the assault took place, and many are related, it reported. Those arrested include one man and his two sons. The men are believed to have been high on drugs, and the girls were lured to the hut.
