Flat-hunting women raped by four men

A ROMANIAN man was yesterday remanded in custody for eight days after being implicated in the alleged rape of two Vietnamese women in Nicosia.

Police said one of the women, 40, told officers that she and her 37-year-old sister were raped by four men.

The two women had visited a house in Lakatamia on Friday afternoon, looking to rent a room. The 40-year-old alleged that while they were chatting with the men, they were assaulted and raped.

The older woman managed to escape through a window while her sister fled from a different exit but the 37-year-old woman has not yet been located, police said.

A gynecologist and a state pathologist examined the other woman and found numerous bruises and scratches on her body, and injuries to her genitalia.

Doctors also found signs of blows to the head.

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