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28-10-2021, 08:48 AM
By SYLVIA HUI
yesterday
LONDON (AP) — Young women across the U.K. are boycotting nightclubs and pubs Wednesday as university towns and cities join in a national “girls night in” protest after increasing reports of drink spiking and students being drugged by needle injections.
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The protests came after a sharp rise in recent months of reports of drink spiking and needle “spiking” -- where women report being injected with drugs in the back or in the leg at nightclubs
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there have been 198 confirmed reports of drink spiking in September and October across the U.K., and 24 reports of people being injected while on nights out.
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Student Zara Owen, 19, told the BBC that she blacked out soon after arriving with friends at a nightclub in the city earlier this month. She said she had no recollection of what happened that night, but woke up with a pain in her leg before she discovered a pin prick.
https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-p...ca01487def
yesterday
LONDON (AP) — Young women across the U.K. are boycotting nightclubs and pubs Wednesday as university towns and cities join in a national “girls night in” protest after increasing reports of drink spiking and students being drugged by needle injections.
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The protests came after a sharp rise in recent months of reports of drink spiking and needle “spiking” -- where women report being injected with drugs in the back or in the leg at nightclubs
......
there have been 198 confirmed reports of drink spiking in September and October across the U.K., and 24 reports of people being injected while on nights out.
......
Student Zara Owen, 19, told the BBC that she blacked out soon after arriving with friends at a nightclub in the city earlier this month. She said she had no recollection of what happened that night, but woke up with a pain in her leg before she discovered a pin prick.
https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-p...ca01487def
