A 22-year-old Sikh nurse in Australia was left with trauma and a broken nose after a gym session on Tuesday night in Melbourne's Geelong area.
This verbal assault on Harmanpreet Singh comes months after anti-immigration protests rocked the country in 2025.
Singh alleged that the racial assault began in the form of verbal abuse while he was working out in the gym, and continued even after his session, as the trio behind the attack had been waiting for him outside the gym as well.
Visuals of the incident show the three attackers calling him an "Indian dog" and telling him to “go back to where you came from”, amid the use of expletives.
"He got really close to my face and then just got really back and hit his head on my nose. And just started bleeding straight away," Singh told 9News Australia.
"Nobody wants to hear it ... Especially when you're just minding your own business ... Anyone would be hurt. I'm still traumatised," he added.
The alleged racial offenders left in a grey sedan, while Singh spent the night in hospital. Visuals from the report also show blood streaming from Singh's broken nose.
The 22-year-old has also alleged that he had faced similar racial discrimination in the past, which had impacted him mentally, and was wondering whether to change his timings at the gym.
"I don't know if I'm going to go back to gym ... I'm not going to feel safe after this," he said.
This also comes almost two months after one of the worst mass shootings and antisemitic crimes in the nation's history at Bondi Beach, in which 15 people died after an armed attack on a Hanukkah celebration in December.
On Monday, the accused Bondi Beach killer Naveed Akram appeared (via video link) in an Australian court in his first public hearing since the massacre. Akram has been charged with terrorism and 15 counts of murder, while his father, Sajid, had been shot and killed by the police during the attack itself.
