Police arrest two suspects of sexual assault on foreigner

Maldives Police Service (MPS) has arrested two individuals suspected of being involved in a sexual assault case reported from a safari boat, docked in Hulhumalé harbor.

The police media official revealed to press, that they received reports of two individuals having sexually assaulted a foreign woman on board the safari boat at around 5am.

Officers raided the ship not long after and arrested two 39-year-old Maldivian men who are now under police custody.

The case is under further investigation.

This comes at a time cases of sexual assault have been on the rise, despite the country being in the face of the global Covid-19 pandemic.

Very recently, the Prosecutor General pressed charges against an individual accused of sexually assaulting three elderly women in southernmost Addu City.

Further, two cases of sexual assault against minors were also reported from the capital city, of recent.