Indian IT professional Prabha Arun Kumar was on the phone with her husband when she was stabbed just 300 meters from her home in Sydney on Saturday night.
"He stabbed me, darling," the 41-year-old reportedly said in her last words to her husband Arun Kumar. 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.
"There is nothing to suggest any racial angle to the murder," Indian Consul General Sanjay Sudhir told NDTV on Monday. "
(Prabha Arun Kumar with her husband in this undated photo.)
Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj has tweeted that she is in constant touch with the Indian Consulate in Sydney.
"We just want to know why she was attacked," her nephew Thrijesh Jayachandra told NDTV, describing her as "daring and beautiful."
"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.
A series of attacks on Indians in Australia in 2010 had led to tension between the two countries. But since then, the number of Indian visitors there has increased.
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