Woman dragged into bushes by man with knife on Mass. road
A woman was dragged into the bushes by a man with a knife on the road connecting Nahant to the mainland Tuesday night, according to police.
Nahant police responded to a report of an assault near the Halfway Bathhouse on Nahant Road around 9 p.m., Nahant police said in a Facebook post Thursday afternoon. Officers at the scene determined that a woman had been dragged into the bushes by a male suspect who was armed with a knife, but that the suspect had been able to flee the scene.
The attack left the woman with non-life-threatening cuts, police said. She was aided at the scene by ambulance personnel Nahant and Massachusetts State Police.
State Police are investigating the incident, Nahant police said. State Police did not immediately respond to a request for updates about the case Thursday afternoon.
'This is a reminder to everyone that while we strive to be proactive in our patrols, Nahant is not impervious to crime. We remind everyone that people should be aware of their location at all times and exercise good situational awareness in their surroundings,' Nahant police wrote in the Facebook post.
No further information about the incident has been released.
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