Further attacks on Sikhs in Australia

Source:The Sikh Times

A Sikh Gurdwara has been vandalised in Shepparton, a small town 90km north of
Melbourne, Australia.

A young Sikh man was also attacked, Nardeep Singh, a 20-year-old from Ludhiana, he was attacked by five people because he refused to give them money; one of them stabbed him in the chest. Nardeep is a student of nursing at the Chisholm Technical Institute.

Racist graffiti and swastikas were scribbled on its walls, eggs thrown at it and the fencing around the Gurdwara smashed by a car. On Tuesday, another Indian student was stabbed in the chest by a box-cutter knife on his way to college in east Melbourne, TOI has reported

Meanwhile, Australia set up an inquiry committee to look into the attacks even as Union minister for overseas Indian affairs Vayalar Ravi said his ministry would prepare and maintain a register of all Indians studying abroad and streamline campus placements to foreign universities.