The truck which the 22-year-old British backpacker had been allegedly held. Photo: NEWS.COM.AU.
SYDNEY: A 22-year-old British woman was raped and assaulted a number of times while she was held hostage by a man during a two-month ordeal in the remote outback of northern Australia, police said on Tuesday.
The British backpacker was rescued on Sunday after officers stopped a car in Mitchell, a small rural town more than 550km west of the Queensland state capital Brisbane, police said.
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