CJ Werleman@cjwerleman
A 16-year-old Muslim boy was fatally stabbed last Thursday in East Delhi’s Trilokpuri area, with his family alleging he was intentionally targeted by a group of Hindu youths despite having no involvement in the dispute that preceded the attack.
The victim, identified as Ayaan Saifi, was his mother’s only child and had reportedly been helping support the family while continuing his studies.
The stabbing took place Thursday evening inside a local park in Trilokpuri, a densely populated working-class neighborhood in the Indian capital that has seen episodes of communal unrest in the past.
According to relatives and eyewitnesses, a group of six to eight youths entered the park carrying knives, chased Ayaan, and repeatedly stabbed him.
“They surrounded him and attacked him from all sides,” one relative who said they witnessed the incident told local media.
(via @yenisafakEN)