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Indian student killed in St. Petersburg

Vladimir Radyuhin

MOSCOW: An Indian student was stabbed to death in St. Petersburg in the same place where another Indian was badly injured in a similar attack earlier this year.

Nitish Kumar Singh (27), belonging to Bihar and a final-year student with the St. Petersburg Mechnikov Medical Academy, was attacked around 9.30 p.m. on Sunday outside his dormitory when he went out to buy bread. Four men stabbed him seven times in the back. His fellow students took him to hospital, but he died there.The city prosecutor did not rule out it was a racially motivated attack. It took place in the same spot where Kishore Kumar Anjangi (23), also a student of the Mechnikov Medical Academy, was stabbed on April 19. He miraculously survived the attack

Kishore thinks the authorities are just not willing to apprehend the attackers. "I know who they are, I even know where they live," he said at a student meeting with officials.

On Sunday, a Sudanese was attacked by a group of people. He was hospitalised with a head injury and a brain concussion.

On Monday, about 200 students held a protest rally in front of the city prosecutor's office in St. Petersburg.

Thirty-four people have died in racist attacks in Russia since the beginning of the year.

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