India, Aug. 6 -- An Irish doctor of Pakistani origin was racially abused by a group of children outside a shopping complex in Navan town recently.

Dr Taimoor Salman estimates children as young as 10 years old shouted 'Mr Curry Man' in a broken Indian accent at him, reported Laois Nationalist reported.

Salman worked as a medical registrar at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda.

He said he had stepped into his car and was reversing the vehicle when a young boy cycled in front of him and repeatedly shouted 'Mr Curry Man'.

"I said he was being very rude and as I reversed an older boy, a young teen, came up and asked me if I had said something so I told him that his friend had been rude," he was quoted as saying by the newspaper.

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