By IRNA
Berlin : Two 21-year-old Sudanese students were hurt in an apparent xenophobic attack in the east German city of Dresden, news reports quoted police and prosecutors as saying Sunday.
A group of 10 to 15 attackers beat up and kicked the African victims.
The assailants shouted also racial slurs against the Sudanese men.
A German man, who tried to come to the rescue of the victims, was also injured in the attack.
Three of the assailants managed to run away from the scene of the crime.
The number of anti-foreigner attacks in Germany reached 511 in 2006, indicating a 37 percent rise from the previous year.
Most of the anti-foreigner attacks are mainly concentrated in economically depressed eastern Germany, which has yet to recover from the whiplash transition from communism to capitalism.
Many foreigners, residing in eastern Germany, are afraid to go out on the streets in the evening.
Some 17 years after the German reunification, economic prospects are still bleak for those living in the five eastern states.