World | Updated Jun 23, 2009 at 09:32am IST

Indian student alleges racist attack in Aus

CNN-IBN

New Delhi: One more Indian has been attacked in Australia with the victim claiming that it was a racial assault.

Mir Raza Ali Khan, a resident of Hyderabad, was reportedly attacked by two men on Monday in Melbourne when he was coming out of hair salon.

According to Raza, the two men approached him and demanded money. They then hit him and ran away without taking the money.

"I was attacked after I walked out of a salon. Two men came and punched me in the face. It was racist attack because they did not take any money. Police came in after 10 minutes," Raza told CNN-IBN from Australia.

He was admitted to a hospital in Melbourne where his condition is stated to be stable.

Police are investigating the case which is the 16th such attack on Indians in Australia in the past one month.

The Australian government has already constituted a task force to check attacks on international students in the country, especially Indians.

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