Nigeria, March 21 -- The police in Delta State, Nigeria's South-south, said they have arrested six suspects over a bizarre festival where women are publicly gang-raped by men.

The festival reportedly took place at the Ozoro community in the Isoko North Local Government area of Delta.

Bright Edafe, the police spokesperson in Delta, disclosed the arrest in a post on X on Friday, 20 March.

Mr Edafe, a superintendent of police, named a local chief, Omorede Sunday, as the festival organiser. He said the chief and another suspect, who is the community head, have been arrested, alongside four others.

"The commissioner of police has ordered that they should be transferred to State CID with immediate effect," the spokesperson said, adding that...