Police are investigating four serious assaults which have occurred in Dunedin in four days.
No arrests had been made in relation to the incidents, which involved five victims and up to 13 possible offenders.
Detective Sergeant Chris Henderson said police were making inquiries yesterday in relation to the various assaults, which included two sexual assaults, one group attack and the bashing of a taxi driver.
In the first incident reported, a 21-year-old woman told police she was attacked by four males while walking home along Leith St, North Dunedin, early on Thursday.
She said she was grabbed and pulled into the car where she was indecently assaulted before escaping.
A 26-year-old woman reported she was attacked in Hargest Cres, St Clair, while walking home alone from work at 2.20am on Sunday.
She told police a man followed her some way before grabbing her, pushing her into a fence and indecently assaulting her.
She fought him off and ran home.
At 4.10am the same day, two men aged 23 and 24 said they were assaulted by a group of about six 16- to 18-year-olds when walking through the rear car park of McDonald's on George St in the central city.
They did not know their attackers.
One of the men suffered facial injuries and a suspected broken nose, and the other received minor facial injuries when he went to his friend's aid.
Police interviewed the injured men yesterday.
On Saturday, about 11.20pm, a taxi driver in his 60s was admitted to hospital after he was punched in the head and robbed by one of two passengers he took to Kettle Park in Moana Rua Rd, St Kilda.
The pair ran off after the assault.
Police yesterday said the man had been discharged from Dunedin Hospital, but they had yet to speak to him.
The incidents do not include a large fracas involving hammers and a skateboard in the Octagon in central Dunedin yesterday.
