A young woman is in hospital after jumping a height of one storey from a balcony in order to avoid being raped.

The incident happened yesterday at about 6 pm in an apartment in Triq Quintinus in Qawra.

The woman fell into an internal yard.

She told people who assisted her that a Nigerian man had tried to rape her.

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