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Another Indian student killed in the US
Published on Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 14:56, Updated on Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 10:19 in World section
Tags: Indian Students, Akkaldelvi Srinivas , New Delhi
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New Delhi: An Indian student was found dead in Pennsylvania on Monday. Akkaldelvi Srinivas, a medical student, from Karimnagar in Andhra Pradesh was found brutally murdered by unknown assailants on Saturday.
Twenty-nine-year-old Srinivas, who went to the US in 2002, was pursuing his second year MD in Internal Medicinerom Mercy Hospital, in Scrantontown, Pennsylvania.
According to his family in Hyderabad, they were informed on Sunday by Srinivas's friends after his body was found in a pool of blood with stab wounds on his neck.
His brother, A Ravinder says that they are still not sure what happened. He says that the family was informed that Srinivas was seriously ill and the next thing they knew, they were being told that Srinivas had expired.
This is the third such incident involving Indian students in the US in the past year. Previously, an engineering student and two doctoral students were also found murdered in North Carolina and Louisiana respectively.
In April 2007, 26-year-old Minal Panchal was killed in the Virginia Tech University. She was pursuing masters in Building Science.
Some 80,000 students come to the US each year for studies and the total Indian student population in the US is said to be over 250,000 at any given time.
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What US authority doing ? They claim to have best investigation in the world. Can not they find it out
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I think, someone should investigate the chinese hand in these murders. For last couple of years....Indian have kicked out chinese
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