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UPDATED: Woman Assaulted After Confronting Line Cutters at Victoria’s Secret

Victoria's Secret store (Flickr photo by Steve Rhodes)Correction at 4:20 p.m. — An earlier version of this story stated incorrectly that the victim cut in front of the suspects. Instead, police say the suspects cut in front of the victim.

A woman was attacked by two other women at the Victoria’s Secret store in Pentagon City mall Saturday evening.

The incident happened just before 7:00 p.m. Police say the 34-year-old victim confronted the two women after they cut ahead of her in the checkout line at the lingerie store. The suspects paid for their goods and then assaulted the woman, according to police.

The victim was punched multiple times in the face and body, according to Arlington County Police spokesman Dustin Sternbeck. The alleged attackers left the store before police could arrive, but were caught on surveillance cameras, Sternbeck said.

“Suspect one is described as a black female in her twenties, approximately 5’7” tall and 200 lbs. She was wearing pink pants and a white shirt at the time of the incident,” police said in the crime report. “Suspect two is described as a black female in her twenties, approximately 5’6” tall and 120 lbs. She was wearing blue jeans and a white sweater.”

Flickr photo by Steve Rhodes