The university student walked on Thames Boulevard after getting out of a bus in Tarneit around 9.15 pm on Wednesday.
Sergeant detective Sean Nicholson said a man approached him, who grabbed her by the chest and tried to drag her into the road.
CCTV captured her struggle and the screams of the woman before she managed to free himself from her attacker.
The woman was only meters from her uncle in the middle of the main door of Saddi when she was attacked.
Saddi heard his niece’s screams. When she ran, she had escaped.
“I was so surprised that I couldn’t even touch the bell, I was just standing there, trembling,” he told 9News.
Before the attack, the university student had been obtaining the bus to and from class, using the stop just 60 meters from his uncle’s house. Now he is too traumatized to do it, Saddi said.
Nicholson said the victim was “extremely distressed and distressed.”
He described the attack as “the worst nightmare of all women.”
“It’s disturbing. You’re simply walking home at a reasonable time at night and then an unknown man,” said Nicholson.
“She was very brave in her reactions and fast and fast, which undoubtedly saved nothing more than what happened.
“We are not clear about the reason at this stage of what the offender was trying to do. We are really trying to identify him and make him account to stop any growing behavior.”
It is described that the offender is in his adolescence or the early twenties, about 160 centimeters high with a thin and dark hair construction.
Police said he fled south to Melpomene Boulevard.
Police seek to talk to the driver of a dark color 4WD that was seen in the area at the time of kidnapping attempt.
Anyone has been urged to contact the police or crime in 1800 333 000.
