Beaten in the head with a stick during a robbery on Bay State Road

Boston University Police report a woman walking in front of 200 Bay State Rd. this morning was mugged by another woman who used a "small, light-colored stick" to smack her in the head repeatedly as she attempted to make off with the victim's handbag:

The victim was dazed and had a severe laceration to her forehead and was transported to the hospital.

Boston Police arrested a suspect near Hemingway Street.

Meanwhile, across the river, a Harvard student was hit in the head with a metal pipe during another handbag robbery early yesterday.