A GROUP of women beat up a notorious bottom-pincher after he groped one of them in the street.

The thrashing and a brief brawl took place in Buka, the capital of Bougainville, when Joe Sohia pinched a woman's buttocks.

The woman and her friends retaliated by swinging their bags at him before knocking him to the ground with a flurry of punches, PNG's Post Courier newspaper reported.

"The man started throwing wild punches at the woman, who did not give up but kept punching back", the newspaper said.

A bus driver who saw the fight said it was brief but drew a large audience before police broke it up.

"Men who harass women in public places should be expecting that kind of beating from women," he said.

"The man who was floored had a very bad habit of pinching women's buttocks in public," he said.

Police took the women in for questioning.

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