Updated On: 07 November, 2013 06:10 PM IST | | PTI
Goa's Art and Culture Minister Dayanand Mandrekar today apologised for his description of Nigerians as a "cancer".
"It's my mistake to make such statement. I apologise," Mandrekar told reporters in Panaji. However, the minister said what Nigerians did in Goa is also wrong.u00a0
After last week's murder of a Nigerian in Mapusa, a group of 200 Nigerians had blocked a major high way in the state and clashed with the police and locals.