Three men arrested at Majorca airport as they tried to board Manchester flight after 'woman raped'

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Three British holidaymakers have been arrested on suspicion of rape as they tried to board a flight to Manchester. The three men, said to be in their twenties, were held at Palma Airport on the Spanish island of Majorca by officers investigating the alleged rape of a woman at a hotel in Magaluf.

The woman who raised the alarm is claiming she may have been drugged during the incident in the party resort, police on the Spanish island have said.

A spokesman for the Civil Guard, confirming the arrests today at a hotel in the municipality of Calvia, which Magaluf is part of, said: “The Civil Guard has arrested three young men as the suspected authors of a crime of sexual aggression on a woman at a hotel in Calvia. Join our FREE Manchester Crime and Court WhatsApp group by clicking here “This morning a central response unit received an alert about a possible sexual aggression form a hotel in the municipality.

A police patrol went to the hotel and spoke to a young tourist who told them she had been raped in the early hours of this morning by men she had met the night before. “She also said she had suffered chemical submission, given that she felt completely unwell possibly because of the consumption of some type of drug. “She said she didn’t know the identity of the alleged aggressors, just the nickname one of them used on a social network.” Explaining she had been taken to hospital so further tests could take place, the spokesman added: “Officers identified the alleged aggressors who had just left the hotel with the intention of taking a flight back to their home country. “They were arrested at Palma Airport minutes before they boarded a flight to Manchester.” The call to police over the incident is understood to have been