In yet another racial attack on Indian students in Australia, a 22-year-old Sikh youth was assaulted by a group of six teenagers, who tried to remove his turban and cut the hair.

Resham Singh, a student of hospitality course who came from Punjab six months ago, became the 20th victim within a month when he was attacked on Monday at Dandenong Station in Melbourne.

Student expelled after turban fire.

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An American student was taken into custody for allegedly assaulting his Sikh classmate and
forcibly removing his patka, the second incident of students from the community being targeted in US schools within a month.

The attacker, a ninth grader, was suspended from Richmond School in Queens suburb of New York, United Sikh, an advocacy group reported without revealing the identities of the two boys.

Muktsar, December 11
On the heels of the death of a Ropar student by robbers at Santiago (US), another youth, Avneet Kaur, has met with tragic end in Australia as she drowned on the sea shore of Melbourne yesterday.

The news of the girl's death reached her native Middu Khera village of Muktsar district this morning and the bereaved family members said the documents required to get the body of the 24-year-old girl back home had been sent to the Australian embassy.