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Police are searching for suspects after a woman reported she was abducted outside a Southview bar and was held captive for seven hours while she was sexually assaulted by three men before she fled.

The woman told investigators she was leaving Tropicana bar on 35 Street S.E. at about 2 a.m. Sept. 27 when she was approached by a man who pulled her against her will into a white SUV.

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The woman later recounted that she was taken to a home in east Calgary where she was sexually assaulted three separate times by her captors. She reportedly managed to flee the next morning and contacted police once she was safe, at about 9 a.m.

“She’s been through a very traumatic event,” Staff Sgt. Bev Voros, of the Calgary police sex crimes unit, told reporters Tuesday. “We have some resources in place and some family in place to help her out, but she’s having a hard time.”

The woman told police that she was out with friends the night she was abducted. She reported she had spotted the three men in the bar earlier that evening but had minimal contact with them.

Police obtained video surveillance footage from inside the bar and were confirming identities of the suspects, Voros said. So far, CCTV footage obtained from outside Tropicana was taken at a distance, she said.