A woman was assaulted Sunday morning while jogging in the Ellsworth Springs neighborhood, according to the Vancouver Police Department. Authorities are asking for help in identifying the assailant in what they said appeared to be a random attack.

Police responded at 7:28 a.m. to a report of an assault on a woman who was jogging in the 1100 block of Southeast 99th Avenue. The woman told police that 12 minutes earlier, a man riding a bike approached her from behind, “grabbed her genital area” and pushed her to the ground, causing her to hit her head, according to a police statement.

The two struggled on the ground, and the woman was eventually able to fight off the man who rode away on his bike. The woman suffered a bump on her head but no other serious physical injuries, police said.

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