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http://www.aljazeera.com...nt-160205141006483.html
Quote:Indian authorities have suspended two policemen and made several arrests over a mob attack on a Tanzanian student in Bangalore in a case that has caused national embarrassment.
A mob attacked the 21-year-old woman as she drove with friends in the southern city in Karnataka state on Sunday night, beating her, tearing off her shirt and setting the car ablaze.
Nine people have now been arrested over the assault, which came in apparent revenge for a fatal road accident in which a Sudanese man had allegedly run over a woman less than an hour before.
The management student said in a complaint lodged with police on Wednesday that the rioting mob attacked her car as they drove near the scene of the road accident less than an hour later.
"Our car was set ablaze. They tugged at my T-shirt and it tore, leaving me without anything. They continued to thrash us and we ran for our lives," she was quoted as saying in her complaint by The Times of India.
Police have come under fire for allegedly failing to stop the attack after the student said she pleaded with an officer for help, stressing that she was Tanzanian and knew nothing of the accident.
"He told us, 'You all look alike and should get the black man who ran over a woman in the area'," she alleged in her complaint.
In 2014 in New Delhi, a mob attacked three African men in a metro station for apparently harassing local women, in what was suspected to be a racially motivated incident.
Delhi's former law minister was also accused in 2014 of harassing African women after he led a vigilante mob through an area of the capital, accusing the women of being prostitutes.
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