- Friday, April 19, 2024
By: Sarwar Alam
A UK police force on Saturday launched an appeal to arrest vandals who attacked a newly-inaugurated Indian war memorial in the town of Smethwick in the West Midlands region of England. West Midlands Police said officers are treating the vandalism to the retaining wall surrounding the ‘Lions of the Great War’ sculpture as “racially-aggravated criminal damage”. The 10-foot high statue, which depicts a Sikh soldier symbolic of the contribution of South Asian soldiers to World War I, was unveiled last Sunday at a spot between the town’s High Street and Tollhouse Way and is believed to have been targeted with…
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