A group of men beat up a University of Minnesota student and stole the student’s cellphone Monday night in Minneapolis, the school said.

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The student was walking near the university’s Pillsbury Court Apartments around 10:20 p.m. Monday when three or four men pushed the student to the ground. They punched and kicked the student and ran off with the victim’s phone, according to a U crime alert about the incident just west of Dinkytown.

The student could not give a description of the robbers.