Arrests after Belfast sexual assaults

Two men have been arrested in connection with separate sexual assaults in Belfast yesterday.

Two men have been arrested in connection with separate sexual assaults in Belfast yesterday.

A man has been arrested as part of the investigation of the rape of a woman along the Albertbridge Road in Belfast in the early hours of yesterday morning.

The woman was approached by a man who appeared to come from the direction of the Ravenhill Road. She was struck and dragged into an alleyway in the Short Strand area where she was attacked.

Separately, a man in his twenties has been arrested after a woman who was sharing a car with a man was sexually assaulted near the Harbour estate area.