A CANADIAN girl was allegedly sexually assaulted on a beach in Grand Bahama on Monday.

Police said shortly after 10am, the teenage girl was collecting shells along the shoreline when an unidentified man approached her and asked her to follow him to a nearby shed, where he claimed to have an assortment of shells.

The girl complied and accompanied him to a shed situated in a bushy area. The man, described as a slim, dark-skinned man with several missing teeth, allegedly sexually assaulted her there.