Hundreds demonstrate over student brutal murder in Delhi

Hundreds of people have descended on to the streets in Delhi in protest against the beating and death of a 21-year-old student from north-eastern India.

Nido Tania was beated on Wednesday by shopkeepers who had ridiculed his appearance.

Tania, who was reportedly on holiday in the Indian capital, succumbed to his injured the following day.

Two people suspected of causing the death have since been detained by police.

The assault and subsequent beating of the student has highlighted racism and discrimination against indigenous and ethnic minorities from India's north-east.

Delhi police have been accused of being slow to respond to the beating of Tania.

The Delhi police have been accused of being slow to respond to the assault on Mr Tania.

Protesters, many of them students, gathered outside a police station near where Mr Tania was attacked in the south Delhi suburb of Lajpat Nagar.

He was the son of a member of the Arunachal Pradesh state assembly.

Indigenous people from India's north-east, who are ethnically closer to people in Burma and China, often say they encounter racism and discrimination in the rest of the country.