MULTAN, Pakistan, July 6: Police have arrested seven men on the charge of gang raping a married woman to avenge her relative’s suspected role in abduction of a girl, officials said on Wednesday. The attack appears similar to one committed on Mukhtaran Mai who was raped on the orders of a tribal jury and whose case had caused international outrage.

Police said that in the latest incident armed men abducted a 25-year woman from her home in rural town of Chiniot last month and allegedly raped her at gunpoint. She was recovered from the house of a man who later claimed that she was abducted “to avenge kidnapping of his daughter by a man in her family,” a police officer said.

The woman told a local magistrate that she was raped by eight men for two days. She denied involvement of her relatives in the abduction of the man’s daughter.

“We have arrested seven people,” a police official said. Police were trying to arrest the eighth suspect, he said.—AFP