Indian’s partly-charred body found in Australia

MELBOURNE - Three days after an Indian youth was fatally stabbed in this Australian city, the authorities Tuesday said that a partially-burnt body found in New South Wales (NSW) province was that of a young Indian man.

Police renewed their appeal for help to solve the death. The body was found partially burnt on the side of a road in southern NSW.

Officials were expected to re-visit Wilga Road at Willbriggie near Griffith, where the body was found Dec 29, police said.

The body is yet to be formally identified but investigators believe it to be that of a 25-year-old Indian man, The Age reported Tuesday.

We have made contact with “the man’s family in India as well as the Indian Consulate in order to assist in the identification process”, police said.

Detective Inspector Paul Smith said police had received a significant amount of information from the public following the death.

The latest revelation comes close on the heels of the fatal stabbing of accounting graduate Nitin Garg in Melbourne Saturday night.

Garg, 21 was knifed in the suburb of West Footscray Saturday while on way to work. He staggered to Hungry Jack’s restaurant and pleaded for help before collapsing.

He was taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital where he died.

There had been a string of attacks on Indians in Australia last year. Indian students have been set upon and viciously assaulted, causing an outcry in India.