London: A man yelled racist abuse at an NHS surgeon of Pakistani origin who had spent hours working to save lives of those caught up in the Manchester bombing attack.
Naveed Yasin was on his way back to Salford Royal Hospital to save victims of the worst terror attack in the United Kingdom since 2005 when he was subject to the abuse, the British media reported.
The trauma and orthopaedic surgeon said he was driving when a “white, middle-aged van driver” pulled up beside him and blasted his horn.
The man reportedly shouted, “You brown, [expletive]. Go back to your own country, you terrorist. We don’t want you people here.”
Yasin’s great-grandfather came to the United Kingdom from Pakistan in the 1960s. He grew up in Keighley, West Yorkshire, and now lives in Manchester with his wife and two daughters.
The media quoted him as saying: “I can’t take away the hatred he had for me because of my skin colour… and the prejudices he had associated with this.”
Yasin described how he and his colleagues helped the Manchester Arena victims.
“Many of my colleagues and I had never experienced injuries from a bomb blast and the effect it has, seeing these, is extremely profound and traumatising,” he said.
Greater Manchester Police have said there had been a spike in hate crimes after the attack, including a suspected arson attack on a mosque in Oldham.
