Police Arrest Rapist Taxi Driver in Southern Lebanon
Security forces have arrested a Lebanese taxi driver in the South on charges of rape and attempted rape, the state-run National News Agency reported on Tuesday.
NNA said Aa.Sh., who hails from the southern town of Tayr Felsay, was apprehended by security forces, after an unidentified girl filed a complaint at the Nabatiyeh police station claiming he tried to rape her.
The girl said the man took her in his taxi from the area of Nabatiyeh Fawqa to a secluded area near the Lebanese University's Science Faculty and tried to sexually assault her.
But she resisted him and escaped.
A Syrian woman, who resides in Nabatiyeh, also identified the man at the police station as her rapist, said NNA.
The agency did not say when the victim was raped.
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