Along with senior Indian foreign ministry officials, today, the Tanzanian envoy will travel to Bengaluru, to inquire into the mob attack on a young Tanzanian woman on Sunday.

1. Foreign minister Sushma Swaraj, who has termed the incident "shameful", has decided to send the team at a meeting, yesterday with senior officials, including Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar.

2. John Kijazi, Tanzanian High Commissioner and is even a part of the delegation, has said that, the woman was attacked because she is black. “This should not happen in the 21st century. It's not a once in a while event, they come several times in a year,” he said.

3. Five people have been arrested and more are being questioned in the case.  

4. The Karnataka government said that is was “definitely not a race attack”. They denied that, the 21-year-old architecture student was stripped and paraded.

5. The woman and three other Tanzanian students were driving by a spot and stopped the car at a place. It was then, a Sudanese driver dragged out the woman.  

6. An angry crowd that had gathered after the accident turned on the Tanzanian students.

7. The crowd beat up the woman and tore at her clothes. “The mob of Indians started chasing and throwing stones at us in the car because they saw we were Africans,” the woman complained.

8. When she tried to enter into a bus, she was pushed out. “We went into a bus, but the driver did not want to move and the people in the bus started to beat us and pushed us outside...I fell on the steps of the bus. The Indians pulled me and continued to beat us,” she said.

9. Even the policemen who was there at the accident spot, and allegedly did not do anything, is also being cornered now. The woman says that, an officer said to her, “You all look alike and should get the black man who ran over a woman in the area.”

10. Foreign ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup called it an isolated incident, a “chain reaction” after the accident, which led to the “shameful and regrettable” incident.

By Phani Ch