Melbourne, May 28
In a fresh incident of racial attack on Indians in Australia, a 25-year old student was stabbed here even as another youth from Andhra Pradesh was battling for life after an assault by local teenagers. Baljinder Singh was attacked on Monday night when two men carrying weapons approached him with the intention of robbing, the Herald Sun reported.

The attackers demanded money and as Baljinder was searching through his bag to hand over his wallet, he was stabbed in the abdomen. When Baljinder screamed for his life, his attackers laughed and fled the scene, the report said.

"I bent down and one guy stabbed me," Baljinder said, adding: "I just wanted to save my life and yelled 'just don't kill me'. They just laughed when they stabbed me in the stomach. They laughed at me...I was screaming 'don't kill me, don't kill me'," Baljinder was quoted saying he believed that the city was a safe place to live, but was now convinced that Indian nationals are being targeted as easy prey.

"We're not safe here now," he said, adding: "There are lots of attacks. You can see that in the western suburbs, but I thought Carnegie was the safest place in Melbourne". — PTI