North­ern Di­vi­sion Po­lice have de­tained two sus­pect­ed rapists who at­tacked a 21-year-old woman at a pic­nic site at the Cau­ra Riv­er, Tacarigua, on Tues­day.Short­ly af­ter 3 pm, po­lice said the woman was at the site with a male com­pan­ion when they were ap­proached by three men armed with cut­lass­es. Po­lice said the vic­tim's friend ran away on see­ing the men, leav­ing her be­hind.

The woman told po­lice two of them then at­tacked her, pinned her to the ground and took turns rap­ing her, while the third man watched. The trio then ran away along the Cau­ra Roy­al Road.With the as­sis­tance of a taxi dri­ver, the woman went to the Tu­na­puna Po­lice Sta­tion and re­port­ed the in­ci­dent. She was able to give in­ves­ti­ga­tors a de­scrip­tion of her at­tack­ers.Po­lice, led by Se­nior Supt David Abra­ham, went to the area and searched for the rapists.

One of the men, 30, was ar­rest­ed hours lat­er while tend­ing to a gar­den near the Cau­ra Hos­pi­tal.The oth­er sus­pect, 27, was ar­rest­ed short­ly af­ter 1 pm, af­ter po­lice were told he was hid­ing near the riv­er, which runs be­hind the hos­pi­tal.Po­lice said the men are from Cau­ra and El Do­ra­do and one of them had been want­ed for some time in con­nec­tion with nu­mer­ous re­cent sex­u­al as­saults in Tu­na­puna.

The sus­pects were be­ing in­ter­ro­gat­ed up to late yes­ter­day. The ar­rest of the third sus­pect is im­mi­nent, po­lice said.They are ex­pect­ed to par­tic­i­pate in ID pa­rades to­day and to­mor­row be­fore they are charged.Sgts Pitt and Charles of the North­ern Di­vi­sion are prob­ing the rape.