Hyderabad: Two more Indians have been attacked in Australia in two separate incidents; one of them is a 25-year-old student from Hyderabad.
Mir Kazim Ali Khan is on a hospital bed in Melbourne with multiple stitches. The 20-year-old student suffered cuts below his eyes and forehead after he was attacked by two people near Box Hill railway station in the eastern suburbs.
"They give very bad, very bad punch on my face. Not only me, every student having a fear in the heart. Like, we are not feeling secure in this country," he said.
With incidents like this, the Australian dream is turning sour for many parents and aspiring students.
"He was a student of Victorial Cookery and Management College. He stepped out to get a haircut when he was attacked," Kazim's brother Mir Raza Ali Khan said in Hyderabad.
Kazim left his home in Hyderabad in May 2007 for the two-year course in hospitality. After the incident, his mother Hajira Fatima is worried.
"I would like to go and see him," she said.
The Australian Police have arrested two teenagers and filed a case of robbery.
"It's not a single pattern attack. Attacks are happening at those places where criminal elements are more active. I have informed everything to the minister whatever step our government has taken. We have improved police patrol in the area," Australian Education Minister Lisa Paul said.
The Indian side, however, are maintaining that thigs are improving in Australia.
"Things are improving in Australia. Situation is under control, but some stray incidents are still happening. We have discussed the matter," Minister for Overseas Affairs Vayalar Ravi said.
That's little consolation to the lakhs of parents and aspiring students for whom safety of Indians in Australia has become a question mark.