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Police hunt sex attacker after woman, in her 20s, is raped in a cemetery

Police are hunting a sex attacker after a woman in her 20s was raped in a cemetery.

A police cordon was put around the graveyard as detectives commenced house-to-house inquiries and forensic officers were called to the scene.

It was understood that officers from Hampshire Constabulary were called in by a crew from the South Central Ambulance Service.

They said that a woman, believed to be aged in her 20s, had told them she had been raped at the cemetery in Cemetery Lane, Southampton, Hampshire.

A statement from Hampshire Constabulary said: 'Police were called at 6.