Click to play videoNew Delhi: An Indian techie, who was a Satyam Computers employee, has been shot dead in the US.
The techie identified as Akshay Vishal belonged to Andhra Pradesh and is the seventh victim from the state to be killed in the US in the last two years.
Akshay's killing comes less than a week after the Satyam fraud came to light.
The 26-year-old was working in the US since 2005 for Satyam's client Falcon Jet Airways in the Little Rock town in Arkansas.
Akshay was shot at on Tuesday and succumbed to injuries on Wednesday...
"There was no enmity or anything. The anti-black attitude of America might have brought this death to him," said Lakshmana Murthy, father of Akshay.
What is more alarming is the unending spate of the mysterious deaths of techies from Andhra Pradesh working in the US.
Akshay is the seventh young techie from Andhra Pradesh to be killed on the American soil in the last two years.
Just two months back, a 25-year-old software engineer from Hyderabad Aparna Jinaga was found dead at her flat in the US.
A Srinivas, a post graduate medical student, was killed last year. Chandrasekhar Reddy Komma and Kiran Kumar Allam, both PhD students, were also killed last year. Jayalakshmi, wife of a techie and her two children were found dead at their house near Detroit, last week. Her husband Nerusu Lakshminivasa Rao is still missing.
Not a single case has so far been cracked.
Over 1 lakh software and management professionals from Andhra Pradesh are working in the US and the increasing incidents of mysterious, brutal deaths have sent shock waves across the state and Andhraites in the US.
Will the US Government act on it at least now?
(With inputs from Preeti Singh)
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