A woman has been left with a serious head injury as police have opened their investigation near the Essex border. 

Suffolk Police are in attendance to an incident in Brantham, after an ambulance was called shortly after 8am on Wednesday, July 24. 

According to reports, a woman had been found who was injured and unconscious on a track near to Rectory Lane. 

The victim, aged in her 50s, had been walking her dog next to the sewage works and railway line. 

Suffolk Police have confirmed she was found with a serious head injury by members of the public and has been taken to hospital, where she remains for treatment. 

Police are treating the incident as an attempted murder and a police cordon remains at the scene while further investigations are carried out. 

Anyone who may have information relating to the incident is asked to get in touch as soon as possible with Suffolk Police, quoting incident 37/41580/24.