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Wed 11 Nov 2002Rape of tourist investigatedA Garda investigation was launched in Cork city yesterday after a young Australian tourist was raped by a man who dragged her into the grounds of a college.The victim, in her mid-20s, met her attacker in a pub on Washington Street last Monday night. The pair struck up a conversation and the man offered to escort her home.