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Teenage Twins Say They Were Drugged and Raped by Putin’s Rampaging Private Army

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BOUAR, Central African Republic—Twin sisters were momentarily thrilled that they had escaped a harrowing abduction when Russian paramilitaries rescued them from kidnappers who snatched them from their home on motorbikes.

Armed men had abducted Fatou and her twin sister, 17, from their home in the northwestern Central African Republic (CAR) market town of Bouar in September. The girls were being spirited out of town when Russian paramilitaries in a pickup caught up with them, arrested the men and rescued the girls.

“We were so relieved when we saw the white soldiers,” Fatou recalled the feeling of the girls as she spoke to The Daily Beast. “We thought we were the luckiest girls in the world.”

Read more at The Daily Beast.