British woman raped at Palolem

MARGAO

: A

British woman

was allegedly raped by an unknown accused in the wee hours of Thursday in a roadside field at

Palolem

, Canacona, a popular beach destination in Goa.


Police sources said that the woman was walking back to her room from the Canacona railway station with her luggage when the accused accosted her on the road leading to Palolem. The accused allegedly pushed the woman into the fields and raped her.

The survivor told the police that the accused “put something in her eye” before raping her, and then fled with the three bags she was carrying along. She then took shelter at a friend’s place nearby before contacting the police, sources said.

Police claim to have obtained CCTV footage of the incident and that the hunt is on to trace the accused based on the description provided by the survivor of the assailant’s appearance.

The incident comes nearly 19 months after the rape and murder of a 28-year old British woman at Devbag beach in Canacona. According to the chargesheet filed by the police in the court in that case, the accused befriended the woman, took her to an isolated field, raped, assaulted and then murdered her.

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