Police in North Lanarkshire investigate a sexual assault reported in Coatbridge after a 17-year-old girl was attacked in the early hours of Sunday morning. According to reports, the teenager is approached by a man in a lane in Coatbridge at around 1:00am. She is then sexually assaulted by the attacker. The incident prompts a police appeal to locate the suspect, with officers treating the report as a serious crime. The accounts agree on the victim’s age and that the assault takes place in a lane in Coatbridge in the early hours of Sunday. At this stage, details about the man’s description and any arrests are not provided in the available summaries. Police continue inquiries and urge anyone with information to come forward to help identify the attacker and establish the circumstances around what happened.