Two arrested for separate attacks on women riding their bikes

Dutch police have arrested one man and a teenager in connection with separate incidents involving young women on bikes.

In the first case, a 17-year-old youth from Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht near Rotterdam has been arrested on suspicion of carrying out nine attacks on women in his home town and nearby Zwijndrecht.

The teenager, who used a fatbike, is said to have knocked the women from their two-wheelers and sexually assaulted them.

Meanwhile in Venlo police have arrested a man who is suspected of attacking two women in Utrecht last week. The arrest was made after photos of the man were circulated on a television crime show.

The man is said to have dragged the women from their bikes and attacked them. Both the Utrecht incidents happened last Thursday night at around 2 am in the city centre and both women appear to have been chosen at random, police said.

The police have declined to say any more about the alleged attacker.