Five injured as mob attacks foreign students at India's Gujarat University


NEW DELHI (Bernama): A mob attacked international students in their hostel at India's Gujarat University in Ahmedabad city on Saturday night for offering tarawih prayers (special prayers performed by Muslims during Ramadan).

"Some 20-25 people entered the hostel premises and objected to the international students offering namaz (Islamic prayers) there," Ahmedabad police commissioner Gyanendra Singh Malik was quoted as saying in a news report on Sunday.

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