Another attack,task force set up

Nardeep Singh 21,a nursing student at the Chisholm Institute in Dandenong in Melbournes east,was slashed with a box-cutter knife carried by one of the five men who confronted him in a car park,a spokeswoman for the Victoria Police said. The attack took place at 1.30 pm local time as Singh was leaving college,she said,adding that he was confronted by five men who demanded cigarettes. When Singh told the men he was a non-smoker,they asked him to part with his money. When the student refused,he was slashed across the chest,The Age reported quoting police officials. Police said after the attack,Singh made his way to a police station where he made a statement about the attack.

Singh is the ninth Indian student to be targeted in a month and attack on him came on a day when Foreign Minister Stephen Smith announced that the government has set up a task force headed by National Security Adviser Duncan Lewis to deal with violence against Indian students in the country. Smith told Parliament that the Government was doing everything it can to ensure the perpetrators of the attacks are found and prosecuted.