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Indonesian groom revealed to be a woman
Jul 26, 2011, 9:06 GMT
Jakarta - A wedding was aborted in Indonesia's Banten province after it was discovered that the groom was a woman, local media reported Tuesday.
The couple was about to exchange vows in front of a Muslim cleric when the groom inadvertently let out a female voice, prompting suspicion among the congregation, the Detik.com news website said.
'When the cleric asked him questions, his voice turned soft, like that of a woman,' said a police officer investigating the woman for fraud.
'It turned out the groom is really a woman,' he said. 'She looked very much like a man and her voice was heavy.'
Last year, an Indonesian man who married someone he met on the social networking website Facebook filed a police complaint after finding out that his new wife was actually a man.
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