GETTY The two Libyan migrants have since been arrested for the attack

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The three young girls, aged 13 and 14, had been waiting at the Dresden Street train station at Neiderwiesa, to the east of the country, on Saturday night. According to police, they were approached at around 6.30pm by two men aged 21 and 39 before being attacked on the platform.

The younger man groped one 13-year-old and the 14-year-old, before holding down the third girl so the 39-year-old could touch her inappropriately. The three were able to break loose from their attackers and escaped before reporting the shocking crime.

GETTY The three girls were waiting on the platform

GETTY Police are investigating the incident

Police say they have now arrested two men from Libya, but investigations into the incident continue. Last month, the terrifying extent of migrant sex attacks in Germany was laid bare following the release of a new map detailing where thousands of woman had children and been raped and abused in 2016 alone. The shocking report said 2,125 people were sexually assaulted and 199 were raped by a combination of refugees or non-German nationals last year.

Cologne: Sex Attacks and Robberies Tue, January 12, 2016 Thirty-one suspects, including 18 asylum seekers, are under investigation over offences including sexual assault and theft in Cologne on New Year's Eve. Far right protestors in Lepzig have rallied against refugees and German chancellor Angela Merkel. Play slideshow Reuters•Getty 1 of 22 Protestors in Lepzig rally after over 100 women were sexually assualted on New Year's Eve

A further 380 people were molested in swimming baths during the year. Sickeningly, children are often the target of foreign sexual deviants across Germany, with 26 minors raped, 633 assaulted and 286 molested at swimming pools in 2016. But migrants weren’t just responsible for the rising number of sex attacks - with crime figures also soaring.

GETTY More than a million migrants entered Europe in 2015