Police in Munich have arrested five Afghan asylum seekers after a 15-year-old girl claims she was raped in Munich, days after a similar report in Freiburg.

According to Bild the men aged between 20 and 25 preyed on the 'socially challenged' girl after she was groomed by one of their number.

She is said to have told officers that one man repeatedly raped her and that she had been assaulted by five of his friends last month.

The attacks were spread out across several apartments in Munich.

On Monday night protesters clashed with police as they reacted to nationalist demonstrations against Angela Merkel's liberal border policy

The chancellor has announced she will be stepping down at the end of her current term after voters turned against her 'Willkommenskultur' which brought in almost a million migrants in 2015

The girl said she was afraid to defend herself because she thought they would beat her.

The Bavarian police are hunting one of their number who is still on the run.

The chief suspect denies any wrongdoing, claiming that all sex was consensual - the age of consent in Germany is 14.

News of the assault comes as Angela Merkel's Germany reels from the horrific story of seven Syrian migrants gang-raping an 18-year-old girl on October 14.

Majd H., 21, the alleged chief suspect of the Freiburg gang-rape case is seen here posing in his homeland with a large machine gun

The Syrians between the ages of 19 and 29, along with a 25-year-old German, were arrested in Freiburg in the south-western German state of Baden-Wuerttebmberg.

One of their number is alleged to have provided her with ecstasy before raping her in bushes outside a nightclub and inviting others to join in.

The four hour ordeal led to 500 marching through the streets on Monday night as nationalist groups criticised Merkel's liberal border policy.

Merkel who has held the Chancellorship since 2005 is stepping down at the end of her term in 2021.

Her coalition faced collapse after permitting the inflow of nearly a million refugees and asylum seekers as part of her 'Willkommenskultur' - welcoming culture, in 2015.