'Mass rape' video on social media shocks Brazil

Brazilian police are hunting more than 30 men suspected of raping a teenage girl in Rio de Janeiro, and of putting video of the attack on social media.

The girl, 16, believes she was doped after going to her boyfriend's house on Saturday and says she woke up in a different house, surrounded by the men. 

Arrest warrants have been issued, including one for the boyfriend. 

The assault has provoked an online campaign against what campaigners call a culture of rape in Brazil. 

Conflicting versions of the story are still coming in, but the alleged rape is said to have taken place in a poor community in western Rio over the weekend. 

She told the police in a statement that she woke up on Sunday, naked and wounded, and made her way home. 

She said days later she found out that some of the alleged rapists had put images of the attack on Twitter. 

A 40-second-video was widely shared and followed by a wave of comments, before the users' accounts were suspended.47 thousand 636 rapes were reported to the police in 2014.


SOURCE: BBC news