African asylum-seeker held for attempted rape

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Last Updated : Sep 20 2017 | 11:48 PM IST

Milan, Sep 20 (IANS/AKI) Police in Bergamo on Wednesday arrested a 20-year-old migrant from Sierra Leone on suspicion of trying to rape a cultural mediator at an asylum centre in the northern Italian city.

The asylum-seeker allegedly pushed the 26-year-old woman into a bathroom at the shelter on Wednesday and attacked her, according to police.

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