An Indian student was seriously injured after he was shot in his cheek by an unidentified gunman in Chicago, United States.
30-year-old Mohammad Akbar was shot at on December 6 in the Albany Park area in Chicago, according to media reports.
Chicago Police said someone walked up to Akbar and fired shots at around 8:45 in the morning.
He received a bullet wound in his right cheek and was rushed to a medical centre in a serious condition.
The county police have started investigating the attack and are trying to trace the alleged assailants.
The police said they were not treating the case as a hate crime.
The victim is from Hyderabad city in India and moved to the US three years ago to study computer systems and telecommunication.
In the recent weeks, there have been a number of incidents of gun violence involving Indian students and migrants.
Last month, a 21-year-old Indian student, Damanjit Singh Jasser was shot dead during a service station robbery in California on November 16.
A week later, an Indian migrant Sandeep Singh (21) was shot dead in Mississippi, also during a robbery.
Earlier this year, a Sikh man was shot when he was in his driveway in Washington state by a masked man who shouted: “go back to your own country”.
In February, a software engineer from India, Srinivas Kuchibholta’s fatal shooting in Kansas by a Navy veteran in a bar sparked fear among many in the Indian-American community about their safety, coming close on the heels of President Donald Trump taking reigns of the country.
