18 Jan 2014

Tourists punched at camping ground

6:23 am on 18 January 2014

Two overseas tourists have been assaulted at a Waikato camping ground.

Police say the assaults happened on Thursday evening when a man and a woman were told to leave the camping ground in Raglan after a separate altercation.

Senior Sergeant Sue Mockford said instead, a French woman was punched in the jaw, knocking her to the ground and an Australian woman was then punched in the nose, causing her to bleed.

She said police do not believe the assaults were a pointed attack on the tourists.

Ms Mockford said the two women who were hurt just happened to be in the wrong place as the alleged offender was leaving the campground.

She said a 23-year-old New Zealand woman has been arrested and will appear in the Hamilton District Court on 29 January.