Police arrest 13 over gang-rape in Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian police have arrested at least 13 people, including a father and his two sons, over the alleged gang-rape of two teenage girls, an officer said on Friday. The girls — aged 15 and 17 — were raped on May 20 for hours by a group of men in an abandoned hut in the northern state of Kelantan, Lai Yong Heng, the state’s director of crime investigation, said. Police have arrested 13 men, aged from 15 to 38, and are looking for “a few more” in connection with the gang-rape, he added. Lai dismissed early reports that almost 40 people took turns in the rape, saying the number was fewer. Published in Dawn, May 31st, 2014