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Another
Indian student killed in campus violence
WSN Network
WASHINGTON:
After
another Indian student was killed in the
US
on Monday, the police said the murder in North Carolina
does not appear to be a case of "gang violence".
Senior Indian
Embassy officials were scheduled to travel to he student's
university on Monday to meet the authorities and make arrangements
for sending his body home. Abhijeet Mahato (29), an IIT alumnus who
was studying for an engineering doctorate degree at the Duke
University's Pratt School of Engineering in Durham, was found shot
dead by his friends at his residence near the campus on Friday
night.
Mahato was a
native of the Indian state of Jharkhand. Detectives and crime-scene
technicians spent the early morning hours of Saturday combing the
spot and found "some clues", media reports said.
The police chief
of Durham,
Jose Lopez, has been quoted in local reports as saying that the
crime is not believed to be related to "gang violence". At Duke,
officials responded to the news by sending out an allcampus e-mail
on early Saturday apprising students, staff and faculty that a
graduate student had been shot to death.
Federal law
requires universities to issue timely warnings of any incident that
might pose an ongoing threat to students or employees. It is done
whenever there is a violent incident reported from the campus.
The killing of
Mahato, who was working in the Duke Computational Mechanics Lab,
comes just over a month after two Indian doctoral students from
Andhra Pradesh were found shot dead in
Louisiana
State
University
campus.
23 January 2008
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