Indians retaliate after racial attack in Australia

Natasha Chaku

Melbourne, Oct 5 (PTI) In yet another racial assault on
Indians, a group of Australian skaters smashed a car and
hurled abuses at some Kabaddi players but they retaliated
injuring two of the attackers who the police said got their
"just desserts."

The incident took place at a carpark outside Meadowglen
International Athletics Stadium in Epping in Melbourne's north
Sunday night when a local skateboarder damaged the rear window
of a car belonging to an Indian who was in a group coming out
of a Kabaddi match. He and his accomplices also used abusive
language against some Indians who were leaving the stadium
after the match.

"Associates of the (Indian) person, whose car was
damaged, came to his assistance. Two (Australian) men were
assaulted and hit with sticks in the brawl. These two injured
men were from the group outside who had allegedly started to
verbally abuse the people from the vehicle," police said in a
statement.

The two Australians -- aged 25 and 42 -- were taken to
Northern Hospital with minor injuries, they said. However, no
arrests have been made and the incident was being
investigated, police said.

Elaborating, police officer Mark Doney said that "one of
the youths there tried to get in the way of the cars and
yelled out a bit of abuse at people."

"I think he got his just desserts from the occupants of
the vehicle after he smashed the window of their car," Doney
was quoted as saying by AAP. PTI NC
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