Bandits slash off woman's hair

Two men on a motorcycle grabbed a housewife, pulled out a machete and cut off the hair she had been growing for two decades, said police in northeastern Brazil.

The woman, who was not named, told police she was walking to church when she was assaulted in Aracaju. "She was an evangelical and said she hadn't cut her hair for 20 years," a police officer said.


"It must have been nearly 1.5m long." The robbers cut the hair above her shoulders, he said, apparently with the idea of selling it to be fashioned into a wig.