Another African falls victim to Xenophobic attack

March 30, 2017 12:04 AM

Singh added that the 25-year-old student reportedly suffered bruising from the attack and had to be hospitalised for treatments.

Protesters protesting the xenophobic attacks in India

Another African has been the target of the xenophobic attacks going on in India, in the same Northern city where two Nigerian students were assaulted in a racist related attack following the death of a local teenager from a suspected drug overdose.

The Kenyan lady was reportedly dragged out of her taxi and beaten by unknown assailants while returning to her home Greater Noida, a satellite city outside India’s capital New Delhi, AFP reports.

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A senior Police Officer Sujata Singh told AFP,

“She has lodged a formal complaint and alleged that four to five men attacked her. We have launched an investigation,” senior police officer .

The occurrence took place despite the efforts of the police to step up security in the city's suburbs where mobs reportedly attacked a group of Africans with sticks and metal chairs.

As earlier reported, five suspects have been arrested by the police in connection with the attacks with at least four others still at large.

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Security checkpoints have since been put in place and patrols increased as part of the manhunt.