Mar 09, 2015
Sydney:
An Indian IT professional was stabbed
to death in a Sydney park on Saturday
night while she was on the phone with
her husband, say reports.
Prabha Arun Kumar, 41, was attacked
as she took a shortcut home through
Parramatta Park in the city's west at
around 9.30 pm. "He stabbed me,
darling," she told her husband Arun
Kumar, Sydney's The Daily Telegraph
reported, as the conversation abruptly
ended.
By the time she was found by a passer-
by and taken to hospital, she had lost too
much blood and doctors were unable to
save her. She had been just 300 metres
from home.
"It is a horrific attack without any
stretch of the imagination," said a senior
police officer, Wayne Cox.
"Sydney murder - I am in constant touch
with our Consulate in Sydney. The
Consulate is providing all help," tweeted
Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj.
Ms Kumar's flatmate in Sydney, Sarada,
was quoted as saying that she had
repeatedly warned her friend not to
walk through the park after dark.
"She worked late regularly so felt bad to
ask for a lift. I told her that it is not a
safe way to come through because there
are people that stop and ask you for
money, like $2," she told The Daily
Telegraph .
"I don't know how I am going to face he
husband. She is very close to her
husband and her daughter. She talks to
them every day, as soon as she finishes
work, she calls her husband and keeps
talking. She has a good family," added Sarada.
There were a series of attacks on Indian
in Australia in 2010, including the fatal
stabbing of 21-year-old Nitin Garg from
Punjab in Melbourne. But since then, th
number of Indian visitors to Australia
has picked up, and Prime Minister
Narendra Modi described warmer
relations between the nations as
"natural" during his visit last year.