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Because she could not explain the way to him, a previously unknown man is said to have hit a 71-year-old in Karlsruhe several times in the face.
The 40 to 50-year-old man apparently only understood English, which the elderly woman did not speak, the police said on Friday.
On Friday night at a bus stop, the man wanted to know the way to a street from the elderly woman.
The language barrier apparently brought the man into such anger that he suddenly attacked the woman. He then fled, leaving the injured woman lying on the ground. She could walk back home though. Due to the severity of her injuries, the 71-year-old had to be hospitalized.