A Harvard undergraduate was assaulted by two men police described as skinheads Tuesday night, in what police are labeling a possible hate crime.

The incident, which occurred on the sidewalk of St. Paul's Church on Arrow Street, is the second Square attack in less than 72 hours that police said may have been motivated by bias.

Speaking through Zayed M. Yasin '02, the President of the Harvard Islamic Society (HIS), the victim of Tuesday's assault, a Dunster House senior, declined public comment and asked that his name not be printed.

But Yasin provided a narrative of events as related to him by the victim.

Around 8:30 p.m., while walking back to Dunster House from the Islamic prayer room in Canaday Hall, the student said he was grabbed from behind by two men, who began punching him.

The assailants, described to police as skinheads, knocked the undergraduate to the ground, where he hit his head. The suspects continued to kick him.

At the time of the assault, the student was wearing an Islamic prayer cap.

Minutes later, the undergraduate was found by another student, who called 911. Police brought him to the Cambridge City Hospital, where doctors stitched a laceration to his head.