Indian IT professional killed in Sydney, Indian software Engineer killed in Sydney

An Indian IT professional was stabbed to death in a Sydney park on Saturday night while she was on the phone with her husband, say reports.

Prabha Arun Kumar, 41, was attacked as she took a shortcut home through Parramatta Park in the city's west at around 9.30 pm. "He stabbed me, darling," she told her husband Arun Kumar, Sydney's The Daily Telegraph reported, as the conversation abruptly ended.

By the time she was found by a passer-by and taken to hospital, she had lost too much blood and doctors were unable to save her. She had been just 300 metres from home.

"It is a horrific attack without any stretch of the imagination," said a senior police officer, Wayne Cox. Ms Kumar's husband, who lives in India with their nine-year-old daughter, reached Sydney on Sunday.

"Sydney murder - I am in constant touch with our Consulate in Sydney. The Consulate is providing all help," tweeted Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj. Ms Kumar's flatmate in Sydney, Sarada, was quoted as saying that she had repeatedly warned her friend not to walk through the park after dark.

"She worked late regularly so felt bad to ask for a lift. I told her that it is not a safe way to come through because there are people that stop and ask you for money, like $2," she told The Daily Telegraph.

"I don't know how I am going to face her husband. She is very close to her husband and her daughter. She talks to them every day, as soon as she finishes work, she calls her husband and keeps talking. She has a good family," added Sarada.

There were a series of attacks on Indians in Australia in 2010, including the fatal stabbing of 21-year-old Nitin Garg from Punjab in Melbourne. But since then, the number of Indian visitors to Australia has picked up, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi described warmer relations between the nations as "natural" during his visit last year.