The North American Punjabi Association (NAPA) on Tuesday expressed its deepest condemnation and outrage over the “horrifying, racially aggravated rape” of a Sikh woman in Walsall, the United Kingdom.

This comes only weeks after a similar racially motivated assault in Oldbury, leaving the Sikh community in shock, fear and grief, the NAPA said.

According to West Midlands Police, the young woman, in her 20s, was raped and assaulted by a man she did not know in the Park Hall area of Walsall on Saturday.

The attack has been officially confirmed as racially aggravated. The suspect has been described as a white male in his 30s with short hair, wearing dark clothing at the time.

“This is an absolutely appalling and deeply distressing incident,” said Satnam Singh Chahal, executive director of N

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