Krishna to leave for Melbourne

Natasha Chaku

Cairns, Aug 8 (PTI) External Affairs of India, Minister S
M Krishna, who is on a five-day visit to Australia, will be
leaving for Melbourne Saturday.

In Melbourne, he will be meeting with the members of
Indian community and later address the media in the evening.

On Sunday, he would be meeting Indian student Sharvan
Kumar Theerthala, who was attacked with a screwdriver in
Melbourne in May and slipped into comatose. Later Kumar came
out of coma and he had been rehabilitating in Melbourne since
then.

Krishna is the first senior Indian dignitary to visit the
country after the recent spate of attacks on Indians. He would
also visit areas where the crime rates were reportedly high.

The External Affairs Minister will also be visiting the
western suburb of Sunshine.

He will be meeting the Victorian Police authorities and
be given a demonstration of a close-circuit television van,
installed by them for the safety of Indians, following the
furore caused by the spate of recent attacks. PTI NC
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