The West Midlands Police has issued a statement informing about the investigation of the rape of a woman in her 20s in Walsall, and stated that the case is being treated as a "racially aggravated attack". Meanwhile, several media reports have claimed that the woman is allegedly of Indian-origin.

"We’re investigating after a woman in her 20s was raped in Walsall in what we are treating as a racially aggravated attack," the police statement read.

"We were called just after 7.15 pm last night to concerns for the welfare of a woman in distress in the street. Officers established that she had been raped and assaulted at a nearby property by a man she did not know. She is now being supported by our officers following the attack, in the Park Hall area of Walsall," it added.

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