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Yet another Indian attacked in Australia

Source: PTI
June 15, 2009 09:09 IST
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There seems no stopping to the wave of  of violent racist attacks in Australia as yet another Indian student was beaten in Melbourne's eastern suburb.

20-year old Sunny Bajaj, according to The Age' report, was verbally abused and then punched by two men as he was about to get into his car in Boronia on Friday night. "They came up to me and asked me for money, I told them I had none and then they attacked me," Bajaj, a student of Deakin University, was qouted in The Age. The student, who hails

from New Delhi, said they slammed his car door and punched him in head and stomach and thenracially abused him. "They called me a ----ing Indian c--- - why would they do that? I said nothing to them,"Bajaj said adding he suffered a fractured finger, bruising to his back and a bloody nose.

Bajaj said his attackers were in their 20s, one was white, while the other appeared to be of African descent. The case which counts the fourteenth such attacks on Indians in Australia in less than a month, is now being investigated by the police.

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