'Beaten, comatose African boy needs financial help'
July 06, 2012  18:03

Update on the African student beaten and comatose.

The envoy of Burundi has said that India has to bring the perpetrators to justice, and that the attack was not racism, but a criminal offence. He says the boy, Yannick Nihangaza's father needs legal and financial help.

Yannick is in a coma ever since the assault and his father Nestor Ntibateganya has come to India to care for him. The family is in a trauma. MRI results shows serious neurological damage inflicted on Yannick for the rest of his life. He would be lucky if he comes out of coma, said doctors treated Yannick.


Yannick, a first-year student at Punjab's Lovely Universy, was attacked by some unidentified person on April 21, while he was walking to a party. Though Jalandhar police arrested two persons, but many others are on the run.
He was rushed to a hospital by passers-by, and has been operated upon twice. Later, his friends shifted him to Patiala for specialised treatment

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