Colombian society reacted with indignation Friday over the case of a Bogota bus driver who was sexually assaulted by at least three individuals who got on the public transport vehicle she was driving along her usual route.
There were no other passengers on the bus at the time.
The Bogota Metropolitan Police said Friday that the gang rape occurred around 11 p.m. Thursday when the bus the woman was driving was going through the densely populated Kennedy district on the southwest side of the city.
There, according to preliminary accounts, two men and a woman got on the bus and threatened the driver with knives.
Later, according to police, one of them took control of the bus while the other two individuals took the driver to the back of the bus, where they beat her and sexually assaulted her.
Police officials cited in the media indicate that the rapists used "objects" to sexually assault the driver, who was left half-naked on the southwest side of the city.
Police Col. Luis Barrera told reporters that the woman, who is receiving medical care at Polyclinic Olaya, was able to tell officers what happened and help with the creation of sketches of the aggressors.
With these elements, Barrera said, citizens will be asked to help "provide information" about the suspects and their whereabouts, in exchanged for which the police force is offering a reward of 10 million pesos ($3,520).
After hearing what happened, Bogota Mayor Gustavo Petro said on Twitter that "there is a rapidly growing number of attacks on (bus) drivers" which "cannot go unpunished, even less because the victims are working women." EFE
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