2 Sikhs attacked, robbed in New York

New York, April 13

In the second such assault in less than 10 days, two Sikhs were attacked and robbed in Queens here, the same neighbourhood in the city where an elderly Sikh man was assaulted early this month.

The Consulate General of India in New York said in a tweet that the “assault on two Sikh gentlemen in Richmond Hills, New York” is deplorable. “We have approached the local authorities and New York City Police Department in the matter,” the Consulate said. It added that it notes that a police complaint had been filed in the incident and one person had been arrested. The Consulate said it was in touch with community members and “ready to offer all assistance to the victims.”

Community-based civil and human rights organisation the Sikh Coalition said the two Sikh individuals were attacked and robbed in Richmond Hill, Queens, on Tuesday. The attack happened “very close” to the area where septuagenarian Nirmal Singh was punched in an unprovoked assault on April 3.

The attack on the two individuals came on the same day as the shooting on a Brooklyn subway that injured 16 people, 10 of whom received gun shot wounds and left five other in critical but stable condition.

The police are on the lookout for the suspect, believed to be a black male, who wearing a gas mask opened a canister inside the subway train as it approached the 36th Street Station in Brooklyn on Tuesday morning. The suspect then opened fire, striking multiple people on the subway and on the platform—