Women grab AK-47, drive-off would-be rapists in West Darfur

22/07/2013 22:50

Two displaced women from Armankul camp in Sirba locality, West Darfur, reportedly escaped an attempted rape by three “pro-government militiamen” on Saturday by fighting back. One of the sheikhs of the camp told Radio Dabanga that the two young women were tending their farms in an agricultural area near the camp, when three armed militiamen approached them and attempted to rape them at gunpoint. “The women managed to seize a Kalashnikov from one of the gunmen, exchanged fire with them and forced the gunmen to flee.” The sheikh praised the courage of the women who then returned to the camp and handed the assault rifle over to the police after filing a report on the incident. File photo: An AK-47 assault rifle (detail from photo by Albert González Farran/UNAMID)

Two displaced women from Armankul camp in Sirba locality, West Darfur, reportedly escaped an attempted rape by three “pro-government militiamen” on Saturday by fighting back.

One of the sheikhs of the camp told Radio Dabanga that the two young women were tending their farms in an agricultural area near the camp, when three armed militiamen approached them and attempted to rape them at gunpoint.

“The women managed to seize a Kalashnikov from one of the gunmen, exchanged fire with them and forced the gunmen to flee.”

The sheikh praised the courage of the women who then returned to the camp and handed the assault rifle over to the police after filing a report on the incident.

File photo: An AK-47 assault rifle (detail from photo by Albert González Farran/UNAMID)