A 20-year-old man was stabbed in a western suburb in Melbourne after he had allegedly racially abused a group of Indian students here in possibly the first act of retaliation.

The victim allegedly said: “You are black. You don’t belong here. Go away from our country,” The Age newspaper reported.

The stabbing came on a day a 23-year-old Indian student, the 11th person from the community, was assaulted within a month in Australia. Kamal Jit was found unconscious and bleeding by another Indian student in western suburb of the city on Sunday.