We study collisions of boosted rotating black holes in $D=6$ and 7 spacetime dimensions with a non-zero impact parameter. We find that there exists an open set of initial conditions such that the intermediate state of the collision is a dumbbell-like horizon which is unstable to a Gregory-Laflamme-type instability. As is usually the case for similar unstable configurations, the evolution of such an instability leads to a pinch off of the horizon in finite asymptotic time, thus forming a naked singularity. Hence, this is the first fully genuine violation of Weak Cosmic Censorship conjecture in higher dimensional asymptotically flat spacetimes.
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