SYDNEY, Jan 9, (AFP) - A man of Indian descent was recovering in hospital after being set on fire in Australia, police said, in the latest in a string of similar attacks.
Police stressed there was no evidence of a racial motive after four men poured an unidentified fluid on the 29-year-old man and set it alight in a Melbourne suburb, leaving him with 15 percent burns.
It follows last weekend's stabbing murder of an Indian man in the city which prompted a New Delhi newspaper to print a cartoon likening Australian police to the Ku Klux Klan.
In the latest incident, the victim was parking his car in a side street after dinner with friends when he was attacked in the early hours of Saturday.
His condition was described as stable. |
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