More than 80 Nigerian students of the GD Goenka University in Gurgaon, India, have reportedly fled the school after an altercation...
a Nigerian student identified as Khaleel said trouble broke out when both Nigerian and Indian students were grouped into one team for football.
“Our captain spoke with the sports officer and laid down his objections against a ‘mixed team’. The officer decided to call off the match. Despite that, a few Indian students entered the field and before anyone could realise a thing, someone hit our captain on the head with an iron rod,” the student was quoted as saying.“Outsiders, who had come on bikes, also joined them and there was a clash. However, the matter was resolved that day itself.
According to Khaleel, a group of Indian students attacked the hostel the next day , adding that “they hurled abuses and threatened us with dire consequences”.TOI further reported that an Indian student, identified as Sultan Khan, refuted the claim that the attacks were perpetrated by locals. According to Khan, he was taking a walk in the school’s premises on Saturday when about five Nigerians used expletives aimed at him.“They kept raining blows on me. My friends came to my rescue but they were thrashed with sticks and rods too,” he said.The development comes about a month after Indian students reportedly protested against their Nigerian colleagues who were performing Islamic prayers at the soccer field.
The Indian students, predominantly Hindus, were said to have complained to the institution’s management, insisting that Muslim students limit their prayers to hostel rooms.
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