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African envoys condemn attacks on African students, call the acts racial and xenophobic

| | Apr 03, 2017, at 08:47 pm
New Delhi, Apr 3 (IBNS) : A group of African envoys in India have strongly condemned the recent attacks on Nigerian students near Delhi, saying the incidents were "racial, xenophobic" in nature, NDTV reported.

In a statement, the envoys also alleged  that  "no known, sufficient and visible deterring measures were taken" by the Indian Government.

"These reprehensible events, both outstanding and unresolved cases against Africans, were not sufficiently condemned by the Indian authorities."

The statement came in the wake of  two attacks on Nigerian students in Greater Noida, where many African students study and live.

A violent mob attack took place on Monday during a protest march over the death of a Class 12 student, allegedly  due to drug  overdose. The protesters alleged that Nigerians supplying drugs were the reason the boy died.

Five suspects were arrested and over 1,000 charged.

In another attack the same evening,  a Nigerian student was beaten with steel dustbins, kicked and punched by a  mob inside the Ansal Plaza mall.

After a few couple of days, a Kenyan woman was pulled out of a vehicle and thrashed by some people in Greater Noida.

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