A Cardiff family are terrified after their car was targeted in a racist attack.

The car was covered in graffiti and serious damage was done in the racially motivated incident on Friday night. The windows of the car were completely smashed, and blue paint was thrown inside.

The Muslim family were disgusted to see the word 'p***' sprayed across the back and side of their two-day-old car.

Safeer Ahmed, 25, from Canton bought the car with his partner last Wednesday.

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His partner, who did not want to be named, said: "We only noticed the damage to the windows and the paint at first but when we saw the graffiti we couldn't believe it. It is just absolutely heartbreaking.

"We've never had an issue before, we just keep to ourselves, I have no idea why we have been targeted like this."

The couple, who live with Safeer's parents and sister, said they are scared of what will happen next.

"If I'm honest I'm just so scared. I worry what will happen next, I keep thinking they will start throwing rocks at the windows and things like that," said Safeer's partner.

"My partner, Safeer, is holding it together a bit more than me but I cant tell he's really worried too. For now it's just a car, we're so thankful that nothing happened to us. We just don't feel like it's safe, it's difficult to be at home alone."

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The couple say they have never come across any type of racism like this before. They had only bought the car last Wednesday and had barely got it home before the attack two days later.

The blue paint pot was later found in a neighbours garden.

"We've spoken to the insurance but to me it just looks so damaged. Thankfully we have a car through the insurance for now, but we use our cars to get to work every day so it really is essential," the partner said.

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"One of our neighbours has CCTV and you can see the blue paint on the road so we've given that to police to try and work out where they came from. It's made us definitely want to get CCTV now, we just don't feel safe.

"You see racism like this and you never think it'll happen to you. We just keep ourselves to ourselves - I just really want to know who would go out of their way to do this."

A spokesperson from South Wales Police said: "South Wales Police is investigating an incident of racially aggravated criminal damage to a car in Canton during the early hours of Saturday, October 12.

"Such damage is totally unacceptable. Cardiff is a modern, multi-cultural city where people of different religions, faiths and cultures live side by side and have done for many, many years. A number of enquiries are being made to help identify the person responsible.

"If anyone has information on this incident we would ask them to please contact us on 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 quoting occurrence *377325."