A tourist has alleged she was gang-raped for five days after being kidnapped in Pakistan before being dumped on the street with her hands and legs tied.
The 28-year-old woman was found lying on the street in Islamabad, with a picture appearing to show her with her hands tied behind her back and her ankles bound.
She said the men who allegedly gang-raped her threw her out of a vehicle in the city, where she was found by passers-by who called police, local media reported.
The woman, who says she is a Belgian tourist, was taken to hospital and reportedly told police she had been in Pakistan for six months.
Police have since arrested a man and searched his apartment, Pakistani media reported.
The 28-year-old woman was found lying on the street in Islamabad, with one image (above) appearing to show her with her hands tied behind her back and her ankles bound.
After investigators contacted the Belgian Embassy to confirm the woman’s claims that she was a tourist, officials told them they had no records of the woman being in Pakistan.
Pakistan’s security agency, the FIA, echoed this statement, saying it had no trace of the woman having entered its country.
Belgian Embassy officials sent police officers to the Dutch Embassy as the woman’s hometown is said to be close to the Belgian-Dutch border.
But local police investigating the woman’s allegations said they believe she is not a foreigner.
The arrested man also told police that the woman was mentally unwell and did not have any identification documents with her, according to reports.
This comes two years after an American vlogger claimed she was gang-raped at a Pakistani hotel by her guide and an accomplice who took videos of her to use as blackmail.
Pakistani police arrested two people after the 21-year-old woman reported the assault in July 2022, which she said occurred while she was visiting a resort in the eastern province of Punjab.
Among those arrested was the woman’s host, who took her to a hotel in Dera Ghazi Khan, a district in Punjab province, where she said she had been sexually assaulted, according to a police investigation.
The woman arrived in Pakistan three weeks earlier, according to police.
This comes two years after an American vlogger claimed she was gang-raped in a Pakistani hotel by her guide and an accomplice (one of whom is pictured handcuffed in the photo above) who recorded videos of her for blackmail.
The woman previously stayed at the home of one of the alleged attackers for five days, with local reports suggesting he was her “guide”.
The free press diary reported the moment he saw the First Information Report (FIR), a document written by the police when a case is first reported.
In it, the Free Press Journal claimed the woman told police she had been gang-raped by two men who filmed the assault and used it to blackmail her.
“We stayed at a hotel in Fort Monroe where both the suspects gang-raped me and also made a video of the act to blackmail me,” she alleged in the FIR.
She later said one of the suspects threatened her after she went to police.
