2 Indo-Canadian seniors attacked in Surrey park

Police in Surrey, B.C., are investigating two separate attacks on Indo-Canadians in the city, but said they don't believe the two incidents are related or racially motivated.

Police said at about 5:30 a.m. Wednesday two men in their 70s were attacked by a group of five to six white men in Bear Creek Park — the same location where two Indo-Canadian seniors were brutally beaten in July 2005.

This time, the two men were not seriously injured.

At 6:30 a.m. Sunday, a bus load of farm workers was attacked by three young white men, police said.

Major Singh Khosa, the bus driver, told CBC News the two men attacked when he stopped to pick up a passenger.

"They threw the rocks on my bus," Khosa said. "The glass is broken. One rock hit my left shoulder and my mouth."

Khosa wasn't seriously injured and neither were any of the passengers.

Sgt. Roger Morrow, a spokesman for the Surrey RCMP, said there doesn't seem to be any connection between the two incidents.

"There's speculation that these are racially motivated. Frankly I don't see that yet," Morrow said.

In July 2005, Mewa Singh Bains, 83, and Shingara Singh Thandi, 76, were beaten with baseball bats by two teenagers in the public washrooms at Bear Creek Park.

Thandi died of his injuries three weeks later in hospital, while Bains died of a stroke a month after attack.

A 15-year-old boy was sentenced to three years, while a 17-year-old boy was given six years in prison.