Telangana minister anguished over spate of attacks in US
Hyderabad Feb 25 (IANS) Telangana Minister for NRI Affairs K.T. Rama has expressed shock and anguish over the spate of attacks the US the latest being the killing of Hyderabad engineer Srinivas Kuchibhotla.
Shocked & anguished by the spate of attacks in US. Vamshi last month Srinivas & Alok now he tweeted on Saturday.
Rama Rao who is son of Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao said the state government will work with the Ministry of External Affairs to offer support to the distressed.
Kuchibhotla 32 was killed and Alok Madasani was injured when Adam W. Purinton a white man who earlier served in the US Navy shot them at the Austins Bar & Grill in Olathe Kansas state on Wednesday night.
Purinton reportedly got into an argument with the victims and hurled racial slurs. He yelled get out of my country terrorist before shooting them.
Kuchibhotla of Hyderabad and his colleague Madasani from Warangal district in Telangana were working as aviation programme managers at Garmin an MNC.
Kuchibhotla is the second man from Telangana to die in a shootout in the US this month.
Software engineer Vamshi Reddy Mamidala was shot dead in Milpitas California on February 10 by an offender in the garage of his apartment building.
The 27-year-old who hailed from Warangal district died when the assailant opened fire while fleeing after robbing a woman.
--IANS
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