African, particularly Nigerian, students in Greater Noida area of India are in danger of further attacks after locals accused them of cannibalism.
At least 100 locals, on Monday evening, protested against African students living in Greater Noida’s Pari Chowk area. They want the Africans to leave.
Four Nigerian students were severely injured after the demonstration turned violent.
Locals accused the Africans, especially, Nigerians of not only eating dogs and dealing drugs but also eating human beings.
“Recently, two dogs went missing. The Africans may have eaten them up,” Nandini Chaturvedi, a resident of the NSG Black Cat Enclave said.
When Manish Khari, a 19-year-old Indian boy went missing on Friday evening, rumour spread that the teenager had last been seen with a group of Nigerians.
A crowd raided the home of the African students and, when they failed to find Khari, accused the Nigerians of eating him, Scroll reported.
Five Nigerian students were arrested but later released after the Association of African Students in India (AASI) protested on Sunday.
“They accused them of being cannibals. That is the kind of ignorance against black people,” AASI president Samuel Abiye Jack The Telegraph.
Khari’s body was later found. He was said to have died of drug overdose. Police freed the arrested Nigerian students on lack of evidence of cannibalism.
That didn’t go well with the locals who violently protested on Monday attacking four Nigerian students, leaving them severely injured.
Scroll reported that police have arrested five Indians in relation to the latest attack on Nigerian students.
