MOSCOW, March 13 (RIA Novosti) - A student from Ghana is in hospital in St. Petersburg after being attacked in the city center by unknown offenders, a local police spokesman said on Thursday.
The Ghanaian student at the St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance sustained blows to the head and stab wounds during the attack in the center of Russia's second-largest city on Wednesday.
Police are searching for the offenders in what is believed to be a racial attack.
This year has seen a rise in the number of attacks on foreigners in Russia.
An Uzbek national was stabbed to death in St. Petersburg Tuesday and another was found dead in the Leningrad Region on Wednesday.
