A Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) employee (23) was gang-raped by four men at her home in Emthunzini suburb on the outskirts of Bulawayo in the presence of her male cousin (22).

The unknown rapists attacked the woman, whose name has been withheld, on Monday last week at about 2.30AM while she was going to work .

The suspects are said to have approached her while she was just about five houses away from hers and demanded to know where she was going at night.

She is said to have innocently told them that she was going to her bus stop where she would be picked up by a Zupco staff bus.

The suspects are said to have produced a knife and threatened to kill her if she made any noise before robbing her of R200.

It is said the quartet force-marched her back to her home where they took turns to sexually violate her.

A Chronicle news crew caught up with the victim’s sister at their Emthunzini residence who wept as she narrated her sister’s ordeal at the hands of the rapist robbers.

“I was at work when this happened. So at about 3.08AM she called me narrating that she had been raped. She told me that four men approached her just as she was passing the fifth house from home on her way to work. She said at first she assumed the men were part of the neighbourhood watch committee as they asked where she was going at night.

-State Media