Machete-wielding hair robbers strike again
January 30, 2008
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It is believed the hair, cut from the heads of women in lightning attacks, is being sold to wig makers for high prices.
In the latest attack, in the northern city of Aracaju, two men on a motorbike grabbed a housewife and used a machete to cut off her 1.5m-long hair.
The woman told police she was walking to church when she was assaulted late on Tuesday, police officer Antonio Williams da Silva.
“She was an evangelical and said she hadn’t cut her hair for 20 years,” Mr da Silva said.
“A hairpiece that size could cost you as much as 1000 reals ($600),” Mr da Silva said.
Similar attacks have occurred in other Brazilian cities, where the demand for human hair is high.
Last year, bandits wielding scissors boarded a bus in Rio de Janeiro and cut off the hair that 22-year-old Mirna Marchet had been growing for four years.
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