A Chinese teenager was injured in a “racially motivated” attack in New Zealand, the Chinese embassy said and urged Auckland police to investigate the incident.
The 16-year-old schoolboy was travelling by bus to Auckland City when he was attacked by a woman with a metal bar on Friday, police said on Monday.
Acting detective senior sergeant James Mapp said the “unprovoked assault” left the teenager with serious facial injuries.
The victim told the New Zealand Herald the woman started “verbally abusing me and then immediately started to physically abuse me”.
The teenager, who has been living in the country with his family for about seven years, was travelling to play basketball with his friends.
The woman yelled racial slurs at him and attacked him with a metal rod, the teenager said, adding that he lost three teeth and began bleeding from his mouth.
