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UK: Racist attack on Kurdish girl from
Sulaimaniyah
12.8.2006 |
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Girl, 10, and toddler slashed in racist attack
A 10-year-old girl told of the terrifying moment she
and her baby sister were slashed by youths in a
racist attack in Hull.
The girl, originally from the Kurdish city of
Sulaimaniyah in Kurdistan (Northern Iraq), was cut
on the back and her 19-month sister across the neck
as they played outside a block of flats on Bathurst
Street in the city.
The girl, whose glasses were snatched off her and
broken in the attack, said she had had to put up
with verbal abuse from local boys for months. One of
her chief tormentors was involved in the latest
incident and had already thrown stones at her and
damaged her bike.
She said: "The boys saw us. I carried on playing. I
didn't look at them. Then one of them asked me some
questions.
"I turned my back then they all started laughing and
swearing at me. Then I looked back and that's when
they broke my glasses. I just wanted to get home as
quickly as possible but I couldn't do it because two
of them followed me.
"I don't know what they had in their hands but it
felt like a knife was going through my back. It was
really hurting."
On examination, it was established that both girls
had received superficial cuts caused by a sharp
instrument.
The older girl told her father what had happened and
he called for an ambulance. They were treated at the
scene by paramedics before being taken to Hull Royal
Infirmary. The older girl's wound was glued and they
were discharged from hospital.
The girls' father, Sharief Mohammed, 33, who is
training as a joiner, said he now wanted to move
house. He has lived in Hull for the past five years,
with his family joining him two years ago.
He said: "The children were scared of course. They
were crying. I think 90 per cent of English people
in Hull are good but 10 per cent are not good."
Officers, who are treating the incident as a
racially-motivated assault, were carrying out
house-to-house inquiries yesterday and have issued
an urgent appeal for witnesses following the attack
on Thursday at 2.50pm.
The offenders are described as male, white, aged in
their teens. The youth who initially spoke to the
girls was wearing a red England football shirt and
had spiky hair which was blonde in the centre and
dark on the sides.
Insp Andy Pell, of Humberside Police, said: "We
suspect that these offenders are local youths. There
are a group of four involved, but two main
offenders.
"Any attack on a young girl and one of 19 months is
taken very seriously, whether it's a racial incident
or not.
"You just want kids to go out and play safely."
The racist attack in Hull came as police revealed
details of a horrifying assault in Bradford in which
an Asian man was deliberately set on by a dog.
The racially-aggravated assault on the 18-year-old
victim took place between 1am and 2am last Saturday,
in Canterbury Avenue.
The man was walking along the road when he was
verbally racially abused by two men and a woman. As
the man tried to run away, a large dog was set on
him. The man received severe bite injuries to his
arms.
A passer-by helped to get the dog – described as a
bulldog type – off him and it ran back to the group
who then fled the scene.
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