Police have arrested four more men on charges of attacking Russian construction workers in Brooklyn in a bias attack in which the victims were mistaken for being Polish, police said.

The five victims were beaten, struck with a bat or stabbed in Williamsburg Tuesday, police said, and one nearly died.

Police said that on Saturday, the following suspects were arrested and charged with attempted murder: Hiram Valentin, 20, of Brooklyn; Ramon Ortiz, 21, of Ozone Park; Michael Alvarez, 20, of Brooklyn; and Luis Torres, 26, of Brooklyn.

The attack took place just before 1 a.m., as the victims, co-workers at a construction firm, stopped at a bodega on Knickerbocker Avenue to buy beer and cigarettes.

Wilfredo Ramos, 32, an ex-convict from Ridgewood, and Enrique Maldonado, 22, also of Ridgewood, were arrested shortly after the incident.

One of the six men arrested was a member of the street gang the Latin Kings, police said, declining to specify which suspect.

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