The Daily Telegraph

Surgeon stabbed near mosque ‘was the victim of a hate crime’

- By Daily Telegraph Reporter

A SURGEON was stabbed on his way to a mosque in an apparent hate crime by attackers who shouted “abusive” comments, according to a Muslim community leader.

The victim, a 58-year-old man named locally as surgeon Dr Nasser Kurdy, was taken to hospital with a stab wound to his neck following the assault outside the Altrincham Islamic Centre, in Grove Lane, in the Greater Manchester market town yesterday evening. He has been discharged from hospital, according to his colleague Dr Khalid Anis, a spokesman for the Altrincham & Hale Muslim Associatio­n, who said he was “very lucky”.

Greater Manchester Police said two men, aged 32 and 54, were arrested within an hour of the attack, which the force is treating as a hate crime but not terrorism related.

Assistant Chief Constable Russ Jackson said: “’This is a very nasty and unprovoked attack against a much-loved local man.”

Police are not looking for any other suspects, he added.

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