Three men arrested in Uppsala, Sweden after alleged gang rape live streamed. Photo / AP
Three men arrested in Uppsala, Sweden after alleged gang rape live streamed. Photo / AP
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Swedish detectives are investigating allegations that a woman was gang-raped in an attack that was broadcast on Facebook Live.
A witness who watched the incident online said she saw the victim being stripped and then sexually assaulted by several armed men and said the attack only ended several hours laterwhen police arrived and switched off the webcam, the Daily Mail reported.
The Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet said the assault took place in a flat in the town of Uppsala, north of Stockholm, on Saturday night and three people had been arrested.
Police were alerted by Josefine Lundgren, 21, who looked on in horror as she watched the live stream on a closed Facebook group.
The apartment is being examined by forensic scientists, three men are being questioned and the woman is thought to be recovering in hospital.
In June last year gang member Antonio Perkins, 28, unwittingly live streamed his own death on Facebook after he was shot dead in Chicago while using the real time video app.
And earlier this month four black people were charged with a hate crime after a white man with learning difficulties was tortured on Facebook Live. The gang shouted: 'F*** Trump' and 'F*** white people' during the attack, also in Chicago.