Surrey RCMP are seeking thief from nan nationalist to place a fishy who sexually assaulted a female wrong her ain location successful an evident random onslaught complete nan weekend.
It happened astir 3:15 a.m. connected Saturday successful northbound Surrey’s Bear Creek neighbourhood.
Police said nan unfortunate awoke to a man she didn’t cognize groping her successful her location adjacent 91 Avenue and 141 Street.
When nan female screamed for help, nan fishy ran off.
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Neighbours told Global News that RCMP were tight-lipped astir nan investigation, arsenic they canvassed nan neighbourhood for surveillance connected Saturday.
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“They said thing happened down those bushes successful beforehand of that house,” said Harpreet Mann, pointing to a location crossed nan street.
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Mann and chap resident Jigishu Basra said they were startled to study of a alien intersexual battle successful nan family-friendly neighbourhood.
“It’s been very welcoming and very quiet truthful this is benignant of astonishing to maine and I ne'er thought this would hap here, but it’s very unfortunate,” said Basra.
“This is nan first clip this happened, this type of incident,” added Mann. “Yeah, it is beautiful bad.”
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It’s unclear if nan unfortunate was physically injured but RCMP said she is being supported by Victim Services.
The Lower Mainland District Integrated Police Dog Service Unit was called retired to thief way nan suspect, who arsenic of Saturday afternoon, remained astatine large.
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Police are searching for a man successful his early 20s, 5’7” to 5’10” tall, pinch an mean build and a agelong achromatic beard.
Anyone pinch accusation aliases who whitethorn person seen nan fishy betwixt nan hours of 11:00 p.m. connected July 19 to 3:30 a.m. connected July 20, is asked to telephone Surrey RCMP astatine 604-599-0502.
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