Police officers during a raid on the abandoned building in Rome, Italy, where a Colombian tourist was allegedly held captive and gang-raped for 72 hours. Credit: Polizia di Stato
Italian police have arrested two Nigerians and three other African migrants over the alleged abduction and gang rape of a Colombian tourist in Rome.
According to a report by British news outlet, Daily Express, on Thursday, the victim, a 32-year-old Colombian woman, was allegedly lured away from a restaurant in the Italian capital on May 19 by a man who offered to sell her hashish, a cannabis product.
She was reportedly taken in a van to an abandoned building on the eastern outskirts of Rome, where she was allegedly held captive for about 72 hours.
Authorities said the woman was repeatedly raped, drugged and threatened during the period.
