Phagwara: A 25-year-old Sudanese student offering morning prayers was stabbed to death and his friend grievously injured by six assailants near a private university here on Thursday, police said. Kapurthala Senior Superintendent of Police Gauarv Toora said all the accused have been arrested from Mandi in Himachal Pradesh.
The deceased was identified as Mohammed Wada Bala Yousif Ahmed, who was residing at a paying guest accommodation in Maheru Colony here. The injured, Ahmed Mohammed Nour, also a Sudanese national, has been hospitalised in Jalandhar, police said. In his police complaint, Nour said he, along with Wada and three female friends, were performing morning prayers when the assailants started abusing them. Two of them were carrying knives.
Nour said one of the assailants allegedly demanded his sister's phone number. When they were told to stop misbehaving, the assailants stabbed Nour and Wada in the chest and fled. A resident, Prabhat Dubey, came to the injured students' help and took them to a hospital, where doctors declared Wada brought dead, police said.
Phagwara Superintendent of Police Rupinder Kaur Bhatti said a case was registered under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
The Mandi Police apprehended six students accused of killing Mohammed Wada Bala Yousif Ahmed. The action was taken by Mandi Police following credible information from Punjab Police. The accused have been identified as Ajit Rajput (from Uttar Pradesh), Mohammed Shoiab (Jammu and Kashmir), Kunwar Amar Pratap (from Uttar Pradesh), Abhay Pal (from Champaran in Bihar), Aditya Garg (from Unnao, Uttar Pradesh) and Vikas Kumar (from Bhojpur, Bihar). The accused have been handed to Punjab Police after all formalities were completed.
