An African student tries to find refuge from an angry mob on the top of a police station inside the New Delhi metro. Screen grab from the video below.

One of the videos filmed by metro users and posted to YouTube. Another similar video can be seen here

Attackers throw a chair at the students.





At the end of the video, one of the students is shirtless. According to our Observer, his clothes were ripped by his attackers.



Videos have emerged of three African students nearly being lynched in the New Delhi metro. Accused of sexual harassment, they were beat with chairs and sticks as a mob screamed at them.Sunday afternoon, a fight broke out between three African men – two from Gabon and one from Burkina Faso – and Indian metro users at New Delhi’s Rajiv Chowk station. Several witnesses filmed the scene on their mobile phones.In the beginning of the above video, the three African university students can be seen taking refuge inside a small, glass-paneled police station. Their attackers try to force open the door, while others watching the scene applaud them and scream insults at the students.The three African men end up climbing on the top of the station to get as far away from the mob as possible. But despite the presence of police officers who try to protect them, the attackers still manage to beat them, some of them with sticks (see photo below).After a few minutes of confusion, during which you can hear the sound of glass shattering and screams, more police officers arrive on the scene to disperse the crowd. A few people yell the nationalist chant “Bharat mata ki jai”, which in Hindi means “Glory to our mother India”.The three students had traveled to New Delhi to attend a friend’s birthday party, and were on their way back to the suburb where they reside, Noida, the next day. According to Indian police, a woman in the metro accused them of sexually harassing her, which set off the crowd’s wrath. According to the Times of India, this woman disappeared without lodging a complaint with the police.