Tuesday, August 9 2005 09:55 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

London: A doctor of Indian descent was pelted with stones and suffered racial abuse from a gang of youths in a British town in the wake of a series of London bomb attacks,his hospital organization said yesterday (Aug 8, 2005).

Yashen Maharaj, 28, was attacked on July 23 in Chatham, southeast England, and two days after a wave of botched bomb attacks in the British capital.

"The doctor was verbally abused and more disturbingly had missiles, including large stones and rocks, thrown at him, one of which hit him on the back," a spokeswoman for Medway NHS Trust said.

"Fortunately the doctor was not seriously injured in the incident, but was extremely shaken and dismayed," she said.

The spokeswoman said the racial abuse referred directly to the bombings in London on July 7 and 21.

The July 7 suicide attacks killed 56 people in four blasts on the capital's transport network.

She added that the assault was 'particularly disgusting' because staff at Medway Maritime Hospital, where Maharaj works, were on stand-by on July 7 to treat victims.