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Police hunt for rape suspect

November 4, 2014 8:23 pm

Police are looking for a suspect for two cases of alleged rape and alleged abduction in a settlement near Suva.

Both alleged incidents happened early Monday morning.

In the first incident a man is alleged to have raped a five year old girl in the bushes 25 meters away from her house.

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It is alleged the suspect abducted the victim after removing three louvre blades from her bedroom window.

In the second incident, at around 3.30am in the same settlement, a man was caught while allegedly trying to rape an eight-year-old girl in her bedroom.

It is alleged the suspect entered the victim’s bedroom while she was sleeping.

The suspect was caught by the victims’ mother who was sleeping in the sitting room.

Police investigations continue in both cases.