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Delhi Police arrest 5 for attack on African nationals

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Police arrested five people including a minor in connection with the attack on African nationals in Delhi.

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After multiple reports of Africans being attacked in Delhi, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday said she has contacted Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Delhi Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung.

She added that culprits will be arrested soon and sensitisation campaign will be launched in areas where African nationals reside.

The Delhi Police have registered four separate cases of reported assaults on African nationals in the national capital but added that the attacks were not racial in nature.

According to police, all four incidents took place on Thursday night in South Delhi`s Mehrauli area where around 300 African nationals reside.

The attacks on the African nationals come a week after a Congolese national, Masonda Ketada Olivier, 29, was beaten to death by three youths on May 20 after a verbal altercation over the hiring of an auto-rickshaw in Vasant Kunj area of south Delhi.

Clarifying the nature of the attacks, Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) Ishwar Singh said, “These are all isolated incidents and not planned attacks. There was no element of racism in the attacks. It`s not as if there`s a public movement against African nationals.”

Union Minister V K Singh on Sunday claimed the attack on African nationals in the national capital was a “minor scuffle” which was “blown up” by the media.

“Had detailed discussion with Delhi Police and found that media blowing up minor scuffle as attack on African nationals in Rajpur Khurd,” Singh, who is the junior minister in External Affairs Ministry, said and questioned the media’s “motive”.

“Why is media doing this? As responsible citizens let us question them and their motives,” he said in a series of tweets.

There has been a spate of attacks on African nationals in the last few days including killing of a Congolese youth in national capital and assault on a 23-year-old Nigerian student in Hyderabad.

Two women — one from Uganda and the other from South Africa — and at least two Nigerian men in Rajpur Khurd, a village in South Delhi, have also complained about physical assault and criminal intimidation. His remarks came on a day External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj pressed for ensuring safety of Africal nationals as she spoke to Home Minister Rajnath Singh who directed Delhi Police to take strict action against the attackers and step up patrolling in the areas inhabited by the community.

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