An assault on a woman at a University of Manitoba dorm room has left students on edge.
The student, whom CTV News is not identifying, said she woke up in her Dafoe Road dorm room to a bang around 4:30 a.m. Friday. She said an unknown man entered her room and began assaulting her. She fought back and escaped, banging on doors in the hall. When no one came out, she pulled the fire alarm.
First-year student Kaitlyn Podolchuk said the news about the assault was “very frightening and disturbing.”
“How they’re so easily able to get into someone’s room, it just was really terrifying,” she said.
Podolchuk lives in the building where the incident took place. She said she heard the fire alarm go off, but didn’t know why. It wasn’t until hours later that she heard about the attack.
“It just makes you wonder about the level of …