Burundi Student Coma

• Burundi Student Yannick Nihangaza, Who Was Brutally Attacked in Punjab, Airlifted to Home Country

  Burundi national Yannick Nihangaza was today flown out of India in an air ambulance to his country in Africa more than two years after the he went into a coma following an attack on him in Jalandhar.

• Seven get 10 years in jail for brutal assault on Burundi student

  Eighteen months after the brutal assault on 23-year-old African student Yannick Nihangaza that left him comatose, a local court yesterday awarded 10 years of rigorous imprisonment to seven persons in the case.

• Student from Burundi in coma: Cops arrest one more accused

  Days after the arrest of Romi Uppal, the son of a Superintendent of Police, one more accused in the African student assault case has been arrested today. So far, four people have been arrested in the case.

• Student from Burundi in coma: Superintendent of Police's son arrested

  The Jalandhar Police has made a fresh arrest in connection with the assault on Yannick Nihangaza, a student from Burundi. Romi Uppal is the son of a Superintendent of Police, and was arrested after his name figured in the call details of the main accused who beat Yannick nearly three months ago, sources said.

• 'We knocked at every door, but got no help,' says family of African student who was stoned

  Nestor Ntibateganya's 23-year-old son has been lying in a coma in a hospital in Patiala for over two months. Yannick Nihangaza suffered severe brain damage after he was stoned and severely beaten by a group of attackers in Jalandhar in April. But most of them are still at large, despite his father's repeated appeals to authorities.

• African student beaten in Patiala: Father's letter to Punjab Chief Minister

  A student from the African country of Burundi has been in coma for nearly three months after he was beaten up and left to die in Patiala. The student suffered severe brain damage from the attack. The victim's father claims he wrote to Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal twice for help, but got no reply.

• African student beaten, stoned in Jalandhar; in coma for 3 months

  A student from the African country of Burundi has been in coma for nearly three months after he was beaten up and left to die in Patiala. The student suffered severe brain damage from the attack.