External Affairs Minister S M Krishna has expressed distress over the spate of attacks on Indians in Australia. Mr. Krishna hoped that a high-level committee set up by Canberra to comprehensively study the issue would take a serious view of such incidents. The minister said that it is distressing because just yesterday he had a long talk with Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith and attacks on Indian students are being repeated over and over again. He said, even before the high-level committee is due to meet sometimes on Saturday or day after to look into the issue, some more attacks) have taken place and the committee should take a serious view. <br/> Mr Krishna was talking to reporters after his meeting with Mr. Smith, their second in two days in London. During their meeting on Thursday on the sidelines of a global conference on Afghanistan hosted by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Mr. Krishna is understood to have conveyed India's displeasure over continuing attacks against the community members despite assurances from the Australian Government. The meeting came as four more Indian youths — three cabbies and a pizza delivery boy — were attacked in Brisbane. Australia earlier this week set up a high-level ministerial working group to comprehensively study the spate of attacks on Indians in the country. Over 100 incidents of attacks on Indians, particularly students, were reported in 2009 in Australia and the assaults have continued this year unabated.