A boy was punched in the face in an apparently unprovoked attack.
The 15-year-old was walking along Watkins Way, Shoebury, when two teenagers followed him and asked him for a cigarette on Monday night.
One then suddenly punched him in the mouth. The victim told police he had never seen them before.
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