CHENNAI: Seeing two women walking by themselves along a dimly-lit stretch at in Vandalur, Chennai, on Tuesday night, two men decided they would be easy targets and tried to grope them. What they didn't bargain for was that the women, Nigerian nationals studying in two city colleges, would turn upon them. The two men, who were drunk, were later handed over to the police.

A police officer said one of the women was a student of Loyola College and the other was studying at Madras Christian College. They were walking to their rented accommodation, when the two men accosted them and tried to molest them. The women, though shocked at the unexpected attack, decided to give it back and began raining blows on their assailants, screaming for help all the while. Some residents of the area and a few passersby noticed the attack and began running to the spot. The men surprised by the ferocious attack, decided to flee when they saw several people rushing toward them. The women, however, would not give up and gave chase, helped by a few passersby who had by then reached the spot. They easily outran the fleeing men, overpowered them and again set upon them before a police patrol team, alerted by some residents, arrived there.