MANCHESTER

A woman was raped in a block of student flats and then attacked by a group of men in an Audi she believed to be a taxi.

The victim left a nightclub on Princess Street, in the city centre, in the early hours of the morning on Friday, July 15.

Some time later she was raped in Ropemaker Court, on Moss Lane East, in Moss Side .

At around 5am the woman got into a white Audi, possibly an Audi Q7, she thought was a taxi.

But when she was inside the woman was verbally and physically abused by four men who were inside the car before she was thrown out onto a dual carriageway at 7am.

A man in a light-coloured van stopped and helped the woman, before he dropped her off at Piccadilly bus station .

Police investigating the rape are trying to trace the van driver as he could be a key witness.

Detective Inspector Dave Moores of GMP’s Serious Sexual Offences Unit, said: “I’m appealing to the man who helped the woman in her time of need to come forward and help us with the investigation.

“He played an important part in the safety of the woman that morning.

“I’m also appealing to anyone who may have seen the woman being thrown from the car or a car of that description in the area at the time.”

Anyone with information should contact police on 0161 856 1911 quoting 129084C/16 or the independent charity Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.

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CHRISTCHURCH

 POLICE are investigating after a taxi driver was threatened with a firearm by a customer.

At 6.37pm on Thursday, Dorset Police received a report of an altercation along Dorset Road in Christchurch.

It is alleged that during the incident a male taxi driver was threatened with a firearm by a male customer.

The taxi driver was uninjured.

Armed officers attended the scene and a 49-year-old Christchurch man was arrested on suspicion of possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence. 

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NEW YORK

Eleven people were hurt after a tour bus swerved to avoid a taxi and crashed into tree just outside New York's Central Park this afternoon.

The double-decker open top bus had been travelling along Fifth Avenue when the driver was forced to swerve to avoid the other vehicle, a police spokesman told Daily Mail Online.  

The bus, which bore a logo for New York Tours, slammed head-on into a tree along the edge of the park at Fifth and East 63rd Street on Manhattan's Upper East Side at around 2pm on Thursday. 


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