Assault in Hobart one the latest in a string of incidents against Chinese visitors in recent months
China has urged authorities in Australia to “severely punish” those responsible for an attack on a Chinese student in the southern state of Tasmania last week.
Tasmanian police said on Friday that two 14-year-old girls had been charged over a serious assault on a 33-year-old man at a Hobart shopping precinct on Tuesday afternoon.
The man was being treated for head injuries in Royal Hobart Hospital and was in a stable condition.
Earlier in the week, four male youths from southern Tasmania – two aged 14 and two aged 15 – were arrested and jointly charged with Criminal Code Assault and bailed with conditions, police said.
