Girl, 16, fights for life after horrific attack

A schoolgirl  is fighting for her life in an  Eastern Cape hospital after being abducted, bound, bludgeoned, stabbed, strangled, raped and buried in a shallow grave.

Police have arrested a man who was at a  shebeen nearby. The Grade 9 pupil, 16, who may not be named due to the nature of the crime, was abducted, raped and  stabbed several times in  her upper body surviving a brutal rape and attempt on her life on Friday night. Her head was also bludgeoned with a heavy object.

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