Moscow visiters attacked by skinheads

MOSCOW, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- Two men were charged Sunday in racist skinhead attacks in Moscow that left six foreign students seriously injured.

Five Jamaicans and a Columbian, including two girls, remained hospitalized Sunday, one day after they were attacked on People's Friendship University, formerly known as Patrice Lumumba University, the BBC reported.

That is the same school where 38 foreign students died in a dormitory fire last weekend.

Nine men described as racist skinheads were arrested after the attacks on the students Saturday, but only two were charged with hooliganism Sunday, the BBC reported.

Racist violence against foreign students in Moscow has become common in recent years, the BBC said.

Authorities initially blamed the fatal dorm fire on arsonists, but they now say faulty electrical equipment sparked the blaze, the BBC said.

Among the dead were nine Chinese, an Ecuadorean, a Sri Lankan, a Vietnamese and a student from Guinea-Bissau.