MED STUDENT SNATCHED AND RAPED

A 21-YEAR-old medical student was abducted on the Quinam beach and raped in a nearby forest, police said yesterday. The woman, of Couva, was found wandering along an isolated road near the beach some eight hours after the ordeal.

Police have detained two men, aged 20, and 35, of the Quinam district, in connection with the incident. Reports stated that on Saturday the medical student went to a beach lime with other friends. Around 2.45 pm while strolling along the shore with her 20-year-old boyfriend the two were confronted by two men, one armed with a gun and the other with a cutlass. According to police, the attackers held onto the young woman and ordered the boyfriend: “Go for all your money and don’t take more than 15 minutes. Don’t make this into a murder.” The 20-year-old man went to the car where he accumulated $150, but when he returned to where he left the medical student he saw the armed men dragging her into the bushes.

The police were immediately alerted and launched a massive aerial and foot patrol search through the Quinam forest. Around 10 pm, police were tipped off by an anonymous caller that a young woman was seen dazed and walking through a lonely area along Siparia/ Quinam Road. Investigators said the young student in her traumatised state still managed to give a description of her attackers. She was taken to the San Fernando General Hospital (SFGH) and warded. Police later picked up two suspects, whom they said had previous convictions for marijuana and cocaine possession. Siparia CID police are continuing investigations.