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London police are asking for the public’s help identifying a suspect after a 66-year-old woman was punched in the head Tuesday afternoon while walking on a trail in northwest London.

Police say the woman was walking shortly before 4 p.m. along a trail in a wooded area on Foxcreek Road, north of Fanshawe Park Road and west of Wonderland Road, when a man she didn’t know began yelling at her before approaching her.

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Police say the man then assaulted the woman, punching her in the head and causing her to fall to the ground. The woman, who suffered minor injuries, then ran southbound along the trail while the suspect fled going north from the wooded area.

Police are describing the suspect as possibly Middle Eastern, between 20 and 25 years old, standing between five-foot-eight and five-foot-10, with a slim build and weighing about 120 pounds.

He also had short black hair, a dark thin moustache and was wearing a dark, long-sleeved shirt and dark pants, and spoke a language unknown to the assaulted woman, police say.

Anyone who could help police identify the suspect is asked to call London police at 519-661-5670 or Crime Stoppers 1-800-222-8477.