Yannick Nihangaza

• 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.

• Burundi Student Yannick Nihangaza, Who Was Brutally Attacked in Punjab, to be Sent Home

  Yannick Nihangaza, the Burundi student who is lying comatose for more than two years in a Patiala nursing home after a brutal attack, can finally go home.

• 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.

• African student, beaten and left to die in Jalandhar, comes out of coma after 9 months

  An African student, who was brutally assaulted in Jalandhar last year and went into coma, is on the road to recovery; he has regained consciousness in a Patiala hospital.

• 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.

• Desperate father's plea works, Punjab orders inquiry on Yannick case

  The Punjab government and the external Affairs Ministry have finally taken up the case of the assaulted African student, who has been in coma in a Patiala hospital for the last three months. His father had been desperately asking for the state to help.

• Punjab government orders inquiry into stoning of African student

  Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has ordered a probe into the case of an African student, who has been in coma for the last three months after being stoned and brutally beaten in Patiala.

• '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.