Police in India have arrested five people in connection with an attack on a Tanzanian student.
A mob assaulted and partially stripped the 21-year-old woman after a Sudanese student’s car ran over and killed a local woman on Sunday night.
The woman was attacked alongside her three friends as they were passing by the accident site.
Police say the crowd chased the young woman and “removed her top.”
India’s Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted on Wednesday that she was deeply pained over the “shameful incident”, and asked the chief minister of Karnataka state, of which Bangalore, where the incident took place, is the capital, to “ensure safety and security of all foreign students and stringent punishment for the guilty”.
According to the police, a mob gatheres in Hessarghatta area on Sunday night after an allegedly drunk student from Sudan ran his car over a woman who was sleeping on the roadside.
The mob beat the man up before setting his car on fire, but he managed to escape.
The four Tanzanian students, including the woman, were attacked when they stopped to inquire what had happened. The mob also set their car on fire.
Bangalore police chief NS Megharikh told BBC Hindi’s Imran Qureshi that it “was a case of road rage and nothing to do with racism or friction between locals and African students”.
