Cook raped in school where she works in Rome

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 12 - A cook was raped Tuesday morning in the Rome school where she works, sources said Tuesday evening.
    The woman, who has not been named, said a "foreigner" came up from behind while she was preparing the kids' lunch, threatened her with a kitchen knife, robbed her and then raped her, the sources said.
    He then locked her up in a store room, from which she phoned the school head some time afterwards and was freed.
    The man came in and out of the school, a large institute run by Franciscan nuns which teaches children from nursery age to middle school, by a back entrance, sources said.
    The victim was taken to hospital.
    A manhunt has been launched.
    The private school is in the Torrino area, on the southern outskirts of the Italian capital. (ANSA).