A teenage girl was raped during a New Year's Eve beach party.
The girl reported she was raped on a sand dune at Main Beach in Lake's Entrance, Victoria's Gippsland region, at 10.35pm on Sunday.
Melbourne detectives traveled to the scene on Tuesday to open investigations alongside officers from the sex crimes squad and local investigators.
The girl was raped on the sand dunes of Main Beach in Lake's Entrance, Gippsland region of Victoria at 10.35pm on Sunday (photo, police on scene on Monday)
An image posted to a local Facebook group Monday afternoon shows one of the dunes cordoned off by investigators with four mounted officers nearby.
The beach party was attended by a large group of people who were provided with alcohol to ring in the new year Herald Sun reports.
Locals told the publication that partygoers traveled from the city to the beach via the 200-metre-long Cunninghame Arm pedestrian bridge
The bridge is normally closed to prevent revelers from accessing the beach, but was unlocked on Sunday.
Anyone with information is urged to contact police. Those who attended the party were expected to be approached by detectives.
A teenage girl has told police she was sexually assaulted during a New Year's Eve beach party on the sand dunes of Main Beach in Lake's Entrance (pictured)