WATCH: A warning today from the police after a woman was attacked and sexually assaulted this morning while jogging near the UBC endowment lands. As Grace Ke reports, people living in the neighbourhood are concerned because this is the second attack in the area this month.
VANCOUVER – A woman was sexually assaulted near the University of British Columbia on Thursday morning.
Vancouver Police say just after 6 a.m. a woman was jogging in the area of 16th Avenue and Discovery Street when she was attacked from behind by a man who sexually assaulted her. The victim was able to scream and fight off her attacker. No arrests have been made so far and police are still canvassing the neighbourhood.
The 30-year-old woman did have some minor injuries and was very upset and shaken.
One neighbour said he could hear screams from inside his home. “At first I thought it was, sometimes you hear the animals screaming from the forest a lot,” he said. “After the last screams, then someone scream lower, in a lower tone ‘help help’ and that’s when I got ready and started to look carefully.”
That is when he said he saw police cars outside his home.
There is no indication from police that this incident is connected to a series of sexual assaults on the UBC campus, dating back to 2013. The latest happened on March 18, when a woman was attacked at Totem Park residence around 1 a.m. The 27-year-old student was found and arrested and police say this was not connected to the 2013 attacks.
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