About 60 Nigerian students at Gurgaon university Dehli, have been forced out of the institution’s campus following a rift between them (Nigerians) and the local students while playing football.
The attack was confirmed in a video shared by a Professor of Peace and Conflict Research, Ashok Swain, at Uppsala University on his verified Twitter handle, saying,
“Nigerian students are being attacked in a University Campus near Delhi – 30,000 Nigerian students come to study in India paying money, 50,000 Indians live in Nigeria to make money.”
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According to a tweet made by an eye witness @Abuti_Mpotso, the attack was due to a fight between a group of Indian students and Nigerian students on access to the institution’s football pitch.
In a WhatsApp conversation @Abuti_Mpotso shared, it was revealed that H.E Ahmad Sulei, Nigerian High Commission to India, led an evacuation of over 100 Nigerian students from the 626 in the university to the Nigerian embassy in New Delhi.
The conversation reads:
“It is so unfortunate that our fellow African students in GD Goenka University, Haryana had a conflict with the Indian students today.
They whole problem started when the Indian students approached the African students at the football ground telling them that they are the official school team of the university and they have a football match to hold.
“They had a bitter argument with the African students and it ended up to a big fight. As i am talking, about 100+ students are evacuated from the 626 in the university to the Nigerian embassy in New Delhi under the leadership of H.E Ahmad Sulei, the Nigerian High commissioner to India.
“We have students with broken arms and heavy fractures on their body parts. The students will be spending the night at the mission till morning where their various embassies will come collect them in the morning.” the WhatsApp chat added.
Videos from the university show Nigerian students been attacked by Indian students.
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