"It was racial," Singh of Richmond Hill said adding his friend, a white was unharmed in the attack. "They were taunting me about my hair and beard," he was quoted as saying by Daliy News. Singh said that they were accosted on the street by three men who demanded money.

He and his friend ran into the nearby supermarket but were dragged out. He was stabbed in the eye, back and chest and is recovering in the hospitals.

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Meanwhile, police have arrested two teenagers and are looking for the third but are not investigating it as hate crime, as they say no hate words were spoken during the incident.

The arrested teenagers have been booked on brutal assault and robbery charges. Singh's family claimed, they have been repeatedly subjected to such attacks because of their looks and appearance.

"It keeps happening to my family. We both worked at Ground Zero on 9/11 and we voted for Obama. We hoped things would get better but it hasn't," Singh's father Jiwan Singh said.