Melbourne, June 15
Racial attacks on Indians in Australia continued unabated with a 20-year-old Delhi youth becoming the 14th victim of a spate of assaults on the community in less than a month when he was punched and abused here, leaving him with a fractured finger and a bloody nose.

Sunny Bajaj, a Deakin University student, was attacked by two men - one white and the other apparently of African descent - in Melbourne’s eastern suburb on Friday night as he was about to get into his car.

“They came to me and asked me for money, I told them I had none and then they attacked me,” Bajaj said.

The student said the attackers slammed his car door and punched him in head and stomach and then racially abused him.

“They called me a ****ing Indian c***. Why would they do that? I said nothing to them,” Bajaj said, adding that, he suffered a fractured finger, bruising to his back and a bloody nose.

Meanwhile, Sravan Kumar (25), a student, whose comatose pictures had sent shock waves across the Indian diaspora, will be moved to a rehabilitation centre to help him recuperate from the brutal attack. — PTI