Warning: contains graphic footage.<\/p>\n
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A manhunt is underway after a man violently assaulted two women near Melbourne\u2019s Chinatown.<\/p>\n
The assaults occurred at separate massage parlours near Chinatown on Thursday, July 9.<\/p>\n
The same man was later spotted at the Paramount Retail Centre, near the corner of Exhibition and Little Bourke streets.<\/p>\n
Victoria Police said it had launched an investigation after being made aware of the incident on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
“Police are aware of two assaults in the Melbourne CBD on 9 July,” a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
“Investigators have observed vision depicting an unknown man entering a Little Bourke Street business just after 4pm and assaulting a female staff member.<\/p>\n
“The same man then entered a different business on the same street around 5pm and assaulted another female staff member.”<\/p>\n
Footage has been shared on social media in an attempt to identify the individual.<\/p>\n
\u201cA man violently assaulted female staff members at two different massage parlours in Melbourne, approximately 40 minutes apart. He punched the women in the head,\u201d the post states.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is not a \u2018walk-out\u2019 or petty dispute – this is straight-up violent crime,\u201d the social media post said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis behaviour is completely unacceptable. No one – especially women working in service roles – should ever have to fear being punched in the head at their place of work.\u201d<\/p>\n
The footage shows a man talking to a woman across a counter before walking around and repeatedly punching the woman.<\/p>\n
He then appears to stomp on her before walking towards the door.<\/p>\n
The second half of the video shows the same man entering a different massage parlour before punching a second woman.<\/p>\n
The woman then flees through a side door, which the man then kicks.<\/p>\n
The man was wearing a red hoodie underneath a black or navy blue jumper with “Australia” written on the front.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A photo from Paramount Retail Centre shows the same man wearing a red flat cap on top of his red hood and carrying a light blue backpack.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warning: contains graphic footage. \u00a0 A manhunt is underway after a man violently assaulted two women near Melbourne\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2304,36155,312,260,31632],"class_list":["post-50691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-melbourne","tag-assault","tag-chinatown","tag-crime","tag-melbourne","tag-violent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}