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Vancouver police investigating sexual assault near UBC

Vancouver police are investigating a sexual assault that happened early this morning in west Point Grey.

Police say woman jogging near West 16 Avenue and Discovery Street was thrown to ground

Vancouver police investigators canvass the neighbourhood where a woman out for a run was sexually assaulted early Thursday morning. (Kirk Williams/CBC)

Vancouver police are investigating a sexual assault that happened early this morning in west Point Grey.

Const. Brian Montague says a 30-year-old woman was jogging near West 16 Avenue and Discovery Street.

Montague says a man approached her and she was thrown to the ground, then sexually assaulted.

Vancouver police investigators are doing door-to-door in the neighbourhood asking residents for reports of anything unusual following a sex assault in the west Point Grey neighbourhood. (Kirk Williams/CBC)

He says the woman suffered minor injuries.

The assault comes just one week after a sexual assault at nearby UBC in which a suspect was arrested.

Police are also looking for another assailant who sexually assaulted an 18-year-old woman on campus in February.

In 2013, UBC RCMP said a  string of six sexual assaults that year on campus were likely connected.

Police have not made any arrests in this latest incident.

A team of investigators is in the neighbourhood conducting a door-to-door canvass of the area.