Unknown assailants have cut off the penis of a British tourist on holiday in the Dominican Republic, Spanish language news sites have reported today.
The victim of the Lorena Bobbit-style attack, named in local press as Alan Paul Khardreed, 43, is said to have been rushed to hospital last night in a desperate attempt to sew his penis back on. His identity has not yet been confirmed by British officials.
The attack was driven by "passionate motives", police sources claimed.
The incident is said to have happened at a three-star hotel in the popular resort of Cabarete in the north of the Spanish-speaking country.
The man reportedly claimed that he was attacked by strangers in his room while he was sleeping. His screams of pain and terror alerted hotel personnel, who called the police.
He is now in a private medical centre in the city of Puerto Plata, where doctors were attempting a graft in a desperate effort to save the organ.
It is unclear if they succeeded.
Police said they had already interviewed people in connection with the attack, and were trying to determine if they were local or foreigners.
A spokesman for the medical centre that the victim is reported to have been taken to said they had no record of his name.
The name "Lorena Bobbit" became synonymous with "penis removal" after she took revenge on her husband John in 1993 for raping her.
The Dominican Republic shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, one of the world's poorest countries.
Cabarete, 25 miles east of Puerto Plata and around 15 miles east of the international airport, is a charismatic little beach town that attracts sports enthusiasts and sun worshippers from all over the world.
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