A 22-YEAR-old woman from Timothy Valley was gang-raped by eight knifemen in Booysens Park on Sunday morning, Port Elizabeth police said on Monday. A policeman said the victim was standing talking to her friend when the eight men approached them and forced them into nearby bushes. They stabbed her male friend three times in the arm. The gang then raped the woman and then tied the two together before fleeing. The man is in a serious but stable condition at a local hospital. No arrests have yet been made. In a separate incident on Sunday, an 18-year-old woman was raped by two men near the Motherwell shopping centre in Port Elizabeth. The men confronted the victim and threatened to attack her with an empty bottle. They raped her before fleeing. No one was arrested. – Sapa