India: Mob attacks Int’l students at Gujarat University over offering namaz in hostel

At least four foreign students have been injured after a Hindu far-right mob stormed a university hostel in India’s western Gujarat state and attacked the group of students for offering prayers during the holy month of Ramadan, Al Jazeera reported.

According to the report, the mob of about 250 Hindus pelted stones and vandalised hostel properties, breaking the students’ laptops, phones and damaging motorbikes.

India’s Ministry of External Affairs on Sunday promised to take “strict actions against the perpetrators”, as the local police in the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi said an investigation was under way in connection with the attack at the Gujarat University.