New York, Sep 8 : A Democratic leader of Indian and Sri Lankan descent from the US state of Minnesota has said she was beaten and bloodied by four young men in front of her children in a carjacking incident, which took place outside home.

Shivanthi Sathanandan, a Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor (DFL) Party official, said the attack, which occurred on Tuesday morning, left her with a broken leg, deep lacerations on head, and bruising and cuts all over her body.

"You could have been reading the obituary for me and my children today. But instead I'm here. To write this... I have a broken leg, deep lacerations on my head, bruising and cuts all over my body. And I have rage," Sathanandan wrote in a Facebook post shared on Wednesday.