Three arrested in connection with 'hate crime spree' against Asian women in New York

New York, Apr 10(ANI): The New York City Police Department (NYPD) has arrested three minors in connection with assaults on at least five elderly Asian women in the city, which was termed by the police as "a hate crime spree".

According to reports, the NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force have arrested a 15-year-old girl, a 15-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl, on charges of third-degree assault.

All of the victims, aged 50 to 71, were attacked in lower Manhattan, and surveillance video showed five teens entering the scene of one attack that happened on March 31.

Police said that two of the teens were female and three male, and that all the suspects were black.

On April 3, a 71-year-old woman was attacked at the Baruch Houses in the evening.

In the most recent incident, a 68-year-old woman was beaten on East Broadway on Tuesday, My Fox New York reports. (ANI)