24-year-old from Sudan studying in Punjab killed

JALANDHAR: A 24-year-old Sudanese national, studying at a private university in Phagwara in Punjab, was stabbed to death while his compatriot was injured in an attack by a group of six other students in the early hours of Thursday while they were on way to morning prayers.

Both the victims and the accused were residing at paying guest accommodations in Maheru village, near the Lovely Professional University (LPU) campus. Phagwara SP Rupinder Kaur Bhatti said the incident took place in Green Valley area near LPU and the accused were students and ex-students of the private university.

According to injured student Ahmed Mohamad Nour Ahmad Hussen , he along with his friend Mohamad Wada Bala Youssif Ahmad, and three women Sudanese students were going to offer ‘namaz’ around 4am when six to seven persons started abusing them and sought the mobile phone numbers of the female students. “I tried to stop them, but they started fighting. Two of them had knives,” he said.