Fresh cases of assault on Indians in Australia, 3 injured

Two fresh cases of assault on Indians have been reported in Australia, with three students being injured in two separate incidents in Sydney and Adelaide despite serious efforts by the country to reestablish its image as a safe destination for international students.

Two students were injured outside a hotel in Sydney last week in what appeared to be a petty street crime, apart from a separate incident surfacing from Adelaide.

New South Wales Police official Brian Wyver said the two men in Sydney suffered minor injuries in a scuffle outside a hotel in Wollongong on Friday.

"When the police arrived they couldn't locate anyone there... They later found that two people had been taken to Wollongong Hospital by a friend," Wyver was quoted as saying by the 'Herald Sun'.

"They attended the hospital and there appears there has been some sort of fight outside the hotel. They didn't want any action in relation to that fight, they weren't badly injured so police have taken a report," he said.

Wyver said the students did not indicate that the fight had been racially-motivated, and they did not want to press charges. "We have asked for CCTV footage from outside the hotel to find out what happened," he added.

In another case, an Indian student was attacked in Adelaide after a group of four drunken localites attacked him.