The mob beat up the Tanzanian students and set fire to their car
Police in India have arrested five people over an angry mob's attack on a Tanzanian student, who was assaulted and partially stripped in the southern city of Bangalore, the AFP news agency reports.
India Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj branded the attack "shameful" and demanded swift justice for those responsible, as she moved to defuse any diplomatic tensions over the incident, AFP reports.
The mob attacked the 21-year-old and her male friends on Sunday night and set their car alight, after they had stopped at the scene of a road accident in which a Sudanese driver ran over a local woman who died.
Bangalore police commissioner N S Megharikh said five people had been arrested over the attack, which he described as a "road rage incident" rather than racially motivated, AFP reports.
"We have arrested the five accused this morning after interrogating them on Wednesday night," Megharikh told AFP.
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