MOSCOW, Dec 25 (AFP): Youths in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg have attacked and killed an African student and seriously another, police said Sunday. "Two African students have been attacked by a group of youths. One was killed on the spot, the other was injured and hospitalised," Alexei Grebtsov, of the city's police, told AFP by telephone. Russian NTV television said the victim was a 28-year-old Cameroonian student who had been living in Russia for three months. He was "stabbed twice in the neck" by the youths in the attacks Saturday night, according to a witness, another African student, questioned by the television channel. The group of six then stabbed a Zambian student in the stomach with a knife. He was taken to hospital.
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