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- Woman complained she was sexually assaulted by two men last week
- The Saudis, both 21 are alleged to have carried out the attack in Telford
- One arrested on suspicion of rape, second with conspiracy to rape
An RAF spokeswoman added: 'We can confirm that two overseas students based at RAF Cosford have been arrested by West Mercia Police on suspicion of rape and conspiracy to commit rape.'
This is not the first time that foreign recruits training in the UK have been linked to serious offences.
MoD bosses agreed to let up to 2,000 Libyan recruits train at Bassingbourn Barracks in Cambridgeshire in 2014.
But the multi-million pound programme was abandoned after allegations of rape, drunkenness, fighting and vandalism.
The majority of the Libyan cadets - a mix of established armed forces, new recruits and former revolutionaries - were sent home in November 2014 after five of them were charged with sexual assaults and reports of ill-discipline and disorder emerged.
Local residents described finding soldiers hiding under cars, wandering the streets drunk and engaging in anti-social behaviour.
Cadets Moktar Ali Saad Mahmoud, 33, and Ibrahim Abugtila, 23, were jailed for 12 years for the rape of a drunken man in Cambridge.
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