Racial attack on Sikh in Canada

Ottawa, March 28

A Sikh man in Canada was dragged and his turban ripped by two white men who shouted racial slurs and threatened him with a knife in an apparent racist attack.

The man was attacked by two white men, both in their 20s, near Westgate Shopping Centre on Friday night.

Apart from robbing him and tearing the turban off his head, the two threatened him with a knife. They also hurled racial slurs at him, the report said. The two suspects approached the victim at 11:25 pm while he waited for a bus. They asked the man about his ethnicity and spoke about cutting his beard and hair, police said. “He was asked specifically about his ethnicity and then there were some racial slurs that came along with that,” said Staff Sergent Mike Haarbosch. — PTI