Three female 'sperm collectors' are being hunted by police after they picked up a hitchhicker and raped him in order to 'harvest' his sperm, police said.
The women, believed to be driving a white Toyota Cresta, offered their target a lift along a main road in the city of Bulawayo, in the southwest of Zimbabwe.
But the man told police instead of dropping him off at his destination, they forced him to have sex with them before dumping him and making off with his semen.
Bulawayo police spokesperson Inspector Precious Simango told The Chronicle they picked up the man at an illegal hiking point on 6th Avenue in the city.
The man began to suspect something was wrong after the women suddenly changed their route.
They are alleged to have then parked in a semi-rural area where they took turns to sexually assault him.
Inspector Simango said: "One of the women used a condom while the others had sex with him without protection. They then took away his semen before dumping him."
The inspector did not explain why they were harvesting semen, but the case bears strong similarities to a spate of attacks across the country in 2011 and 2012.
These attacks were fuelled by a demand for men's semen in traditional luck-enhancing 'juju' rituals.
According to local media, victims are drugged or threatened with guns or knives, given a sexual stimulant and forced to have sex repeatedly before being dumped on the side of the road.
In November 2011, three sisters and one of their boyfriends were charged in a Harare court for attacking male hitchhikers and harvesting their semen for rituals.
The Nhokwara sisters were caught when they were involved in a car accident and police found 31 used condoms in the boot of their car.
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