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Ottawa police have released mugshots of two convicted rapists believed to have fled the country while out on bail.

Police say they are hunting for international students Ousmane Kader Diarrassouba, 24, and Abdilahi Houd, 22, who were convicted on June 28 for the 2017 gang rape of a young Ottawa woman.

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Minutes after conviction, Ontario Court Justice Robert Fournier refused a Crown request to revoke their bail while they awaited sentencing. The judge also gave them 72 hours to surrender their passports at Ottawa police headquarters.

Diarrassouba and Houd, who have family in France and Africa, never turned in their passports and haven’t been seen since. They have so far eluded police, who until yesterday, had not issued a public release on the rapists now on the lam.

“We supported the successful prosecution of this case. We then conducted an investigation and search into their whereabouts when they did not appear for sentencing, while on bail conditions this summer. It is believed the two wanted men have fled Canada,” Ottawa police said in a statement to this newspaper.