A manhunt has been launched after a woman was attacked while jogging near some allotments in Cambridgeshire.
The victim was grabbed by a man near Coneygree Road in Stanground, Peterborough at 7pm on Sunday.
She was jogging through an alleyway adjacent to Havelock Drive in Stanground near to Southfields allotments when she was grabbed by a man who tried unsuccessfully to steal her mobile phone.
A spokesman for Cammbridgeshire police said: "In her struggle to escape the woman received a blow to the side of her face, which resulted in minor injuries.
"Thankfully she managed to escape."
Police say the man is described as white, around 5ft 4ins, average build and wearing a dark hooded tracksuit top, a dark scarf across his face, dark trousers and white trainers.
Police are appealing for any witnesses who may have been in the Coneygree Road/Havelock Drive area on Sunday, in particular to two white men, one wearing a black padded jacket with fair hair and the other with black hair wearing a blue rain coat who were in the area prior to the attack and may have seen something.
Anybody with information please contact Cambridgeshire Constabulary on 101 and quote reference number 35/18838/19.
