A 23-year-old man is facing sexual assault charges in Saskatoon.
A woman reported the assault Saturday morning.
The Saskatoon Police Service said it got the report around 7:30 a.m. and arrived in the 200 block of 3rd Avenue.
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Officers found a man hiding in the bushes and confirmed that he was the suspect, but he fled.
The man was taken into custody a short while later and charged with sexual assault causing bodily harm, assault and obstruction.
The victim, a 28-year-old woman was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Police said the man and the woman weren’t known to each other.
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