POLICE are carrying out extra patrols along the length of the Bristol & Bath Railway Path after a man was stabbed and a boy was robbed of his bike.
Two teenagers have been arrested after the attack on the man, which took place in Bitton at about 8pm on August 11.
Avon & Somerset police said the injured man, who is in his 30s, was taken to hospital with what police described as “non-life-threatening injuries”.
He was wounded on a section of the path near the Avon Valley Railway’s Bitton station, which was sealed off after the incident while forensic investigations took place.
A police spokesperson said one teenage boy was arrested on the night of the incident and a second the following afternoon.
Both were released on bail while enquiries continue, with conditions including not entering the railway path and an overnight curfew.
The following day a boy in his late teens suffered what police described as “minor physical injuries” when he was mugged by eight masked youths on a stretch of the path close to the former Mangotsfield station.
The boy had a grey Carrera Crossfire 2 bike taken from him by the group, described as being in their late teens or early 20s.
Police said the first attacker was white, 5ft 8in and of large build, with brown eyes. He wore a black bucket hat, black face covering, black Adidas coat and black jogging bottoms.
The second was described only as wearing black clothing.
The third was Asian and of large build. He was wearing a black bucket hat, dark face covering, a thin waterproof jacket with a hood and black joggers, and rode a black e-scooter with red markings and a screen.
The fourth was black, about 6ft 2in and slim, with messy afro hair. He had a face covering and was wearing a black tracksuit and black joggers with a white stripe, and was a passenger on the e-scooter.
The fifth and sixth suspects were white, wearing bucket hats and face coverings. One wore a black jacket and white and black joggers, and the other a black Nike tracksuit.
The seventh mugger was of mixed race, 6ft 4in and of a large build. He was wearing a grey tracksuit top and black Nike tracksuit bottoms, a bucket hat and face covering, and was riding a dark grey electric bike.
The eighth was white, 6ft, of average build with black clothes, including a bucket hat. He was riding a grey road bike with no lights or reflectors.
Police say the two incidents aren’t believed to be linked.