Apparently motivated by hatred a 17-year-old Sikh high school student was attacked in Canada
At the junction of Robson Road East and Rutland Road South in Kelowna, the event happened on Monday.
According to a media report on Thursday, a 17-year-old Sikh high school student in Canada’s British Columbia province was beaten at a bus stop after an incident with another teenager in what seems to be a case of hate crime.
According to the police, there was “an altercation” on a bus before to the attack, which led to those involved being expelled.
The high school kid is said to have been “kicked, punched, and pepper-sprayed” during the incident, which happened on Monday in Kelowna near the junction of Rutland Road South and Robson Road East, according to a report from CTV news.
According to a statement from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a 17-year-old Sikh student was either pepper sprayed or had beer thrown at him by another adolescent man after getting off a bus on his way home.
According to the police, there was “an altercation” on a bus before to the attack, which led to those involved being expelled.
The World Sikh Organisation of Canada claims that the student was also attacked inside the car, however police have not provided any more information.
The organization said, according to the CTV news report, that “two people approached the student and initially prevented his entry onto the bus before allowing him to board and then started to threaten him with a lighter and photograph and record him from a close distance with their phones.”
The assault on a Sikh high school kid in Kelowna on Monday is disturbing and inexcusable, according to Guntaas Kaur, the WSO’s vice-president for British Columbia.
This is the second time this year that a Sikh kid using the city’s public transportation has experienced similar assault.
An unnamed gang of guys assaulted Gagandeep Singh, a 21-year-old Sikh student from India, in British Columbia province earlier in March. They tore off his turban and dragged him across the pavement by his hair.
