India, Sept. 13 -- The UK Police on Friday launched an appeal for information following the alleged rape of a British Sikh woman earlier this week, an attack being treated as a "racially aggravated assault."

West Midlands Police said they were called on Tuesday morning after a woman in her 20s reported being sexually assaulted on Tame Road in Oldbury, Sandwell, West Midlands.

"We're investigating after a woman reported to us that she had been raped in Oldbury in what we are treating as a racially aggravated attack," news agency PTI quoted West Midlands Police as saying in a statement.

"The woman has told us that a racist remark was made to her during the attack. We are currently treating it as an isolated incident," the statement added...