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A brave mum-of-four has revealed how a teenage gang launched a vicious tirade of racist abuse at her, telling her to "get out of our country".

Kiran Loomba was enjoying her regular evening stroll around the seaside town of Whitley Bay with niece Ranjna Murria on Tuesday when she was victimised.

She claims she was slapped in the face by a teenage girl so hard her lip was cut and her cheek was bruised during the ordeal, which felt like it "lasted a lifetime".

The Tesco Bank employee said: "I had seen the group of teenagers coming towards us but we just kept talking between ourselves. They all walked past except this one girl.

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"I’ve seen her hands outstretched and the next thing I know, she just slapped us across the face.

"My lip started bleeding and I was just in a state of shock. I just stood there and asked ‘what’s your problem?’

"She said ‘get out of our country you f****** p****’. and they all joined in shouting at us.

"It was a gang mentality where they stuck together and tried to intimidate us.

"I rang the police and my niece tried to get pictures, but they started to leg it once they realised we got our phones out."

The alleged attack took place at about 6.15pm in the Tyne and Wear town, but there were no bystanders on hand to step in and stop the teenagers.

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Kiran was born and raised in Rajasthan, India, and moved to the North East almost two decades ago at the age of 23 after marrying husband Kishore.

Kishore owns and runs convenience store Palmersville Express in Newcastle , while Kiran works and looks after daughters Riya, 14, Diya, 11, Siya, two, and their one-year-old son Krish.

Kiran said this was the first racist experience she had suffered, but admits she no longer feels safe in the town she has called home for almost 20 years.

She said: "Obviously I don’t feel safe. I have lived here for nearly two decades and all I think now is 'is it safe for me to step outside?'

“I don’t know whether to go out as we don’t know if we will be assaulted.

"We’re just hard-working people trying to earn a living and raise our family.

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"This needs to be addressed, something needs to be done to make the streets safer.

"British people out there feel safe but for people like me, we don’t and that should not be the case."

The group of five or six teenagers have been described as being no older than 16, and as a mixture of girls and boys with several on bikes across Norham Road in the town.

The teenager who allegedly slapped the mum was wearing a white hoodie-type jacket, black leggings, and had a blonde ponytail.

A spokesperson for pressure group Stand Up to Racism North East condemned the incident, claiming migrants and refugees are being treated as scapegoats across the country.

They added: "News of the racist incident has appalled the local community.

"Those responsible for this hate crime are products of our current society where migrants and refugees are used as the scapegoat for all our problems.

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"This kind of intolerance offers no solutions whatsoever and only serves to divide us.

"We've seen a rise in extremism recently culminating in unprovoked attacks like this to the point people aren't even safe in an area they've lived in all their lives.

"People are made to feel unwelcome in the very country they were born in. This cannot go on any longer - we must oppose this racism at every level."

Northumbria Police has launched a full investigation into the assault, and has ordered extra patrols in the area despite its belief it was a 'spontaneous and isolated incident'.

Any witnesses or anyone with information is urged to call police on 101.