A woman was violently attacked, groped and had her clothes ripped apart by a swarm of 400 men in Pakistan as she was filming a Tiktok video on Saturday.
A video of the incident went viral on social media that showed how the woman was manhandled violently by the men surrounding her.
Shocking beyond imagination!
400 men groping,beating & tearing cloth of 1 tiktoker girl in #MinarePakistan
Girl screaming for help.. Azaan going on in the background
These Vultures are no less than Talibanis
This is Naya Pakistan..Shameful pic.twitter.com/PBYWqAWvon— Major Surendra Poonia (@MajorPoonia) August 18, 2021Advertisement
She was picked up, dragged through hundreds of men who were gathered at Minar-e-Pakistan to celebrate Independence Day.
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The unidentified woman said that she was shooting a TikTok video at a park in Lahore and had disturbed no one in the process. Yet, a crowd of men came and started assaulting her.
She attempted to escape from the crowd along with six others but failed. She said the crowd kept “assaulting and attacking us”.
"The crowd was huge and people were scaling the enclosure and coming towards us," the woman said in her FIR, Pakistan newspaper Dawn reported.
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"People were pushing and pulling me to the extent that they tore my clothes. Several people tried to help me but the crowd was too huge and they kept throwing me in the air," she added.
During the scuffle, the woman said her earrings, phone of the man she was with, his identity card and Rs 15,000 were taken by the people.
The FIR was registered under sections 354 A (assault or use of criminal force against woman and stripping her of her clothes), 147 (rioting) and 149 (unlawful assembly) of the Pakistan Penal Code, 382 (theft after preparation made for causing death, hurt or restraint in order to commit the theft), against hundreds of unidentified persons, according to Dawn.
