A 14-year-old girl has been approached with a knife by two men near ASDA in Bournemouth but fled the scene unharmed.<\/p>\n
Officers are appealing for witnesses or anyone with information to come forward.<\/p>\n
At around 6pm on Saturday 21 January 2023 a 14-year-old girl was walking through an underpass at the Station Roundabout near to Asda, when she was approached by two men. One of the men held a knife out toward the child, who was wearing headphones and could not hear if anything was said.<\/p>\n
After seeing the knife, which is described as a retractable workman\u2019s knife, the victim fled the scene in the direction of Holdenhurst Road.<\/p>\n
The man with the knife is described as white, around five feet six inches tall and of medium build with blond hair. He was wearing a black Puffa-style coat and a beanie hat.<\/p>\n
The other man is described as white and around six feet tall. He was wearing a long, black coat with a hood that was up.<\/p>\n
Police Constable Jake Chester, of Bournemouth police, said: \u201cThis must have been a distressing incident for the girl involved and we are carrying out a number of enquiries to identify the men who were responsible.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am appealing to anyone who witnessed any suspicious activity in the area of the underpass around the time of the incident to please get in touch.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would also like to hear from anyone who was driving in the vicinity and may have captured anything of relevance on dashcam footage.\u201d A 14-year-old girl has been approached with a knife by two men near ASDA in Bournemouth but fled the scene unharmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,156],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-62603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bournemouth","category-news","tag-dorset-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62605,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62603\/revisions\/62605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nAnyone with information is asked to contact Dorset Police at www.dorset.police.uk\/contact or by calling 101, quoting occurrence number 55230010807. Alternatively, independent charity Crimestoppers can be contacted anonymously online at Crimestoppers-uk.org or by calling Freephone 0800 555 111.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"