Indian student from A.P. killed in U.S.

Hyderabad, Nov 4 (PTI) A woman student from Andhra Pradesh was found murdered in the U.S. by unidentified persons in the fifth case of a young post-graduate student from the state being killed under mysterious circumstances in that country in the last one year.

Arpana Jinaga (24), pursuing her M.S. degree at Seattle,
was killed sometime on Friday evening(US time), family sources
told PTI here Tuesday.

The tragedy came to light three days after the crime and
an investigation has begun, they said. The motive for the
murder was not immediately known.

Jinaga, who completed her engineering from a city-based
private engineering college in 2005, was working as a software
engineer and simultaneously pursuing M.S. She is among the
top-20 professionals of embedded systems in the world, the
sources said.

Jinaga's father, B.C. Jinaga, is a professor with the
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University here and heads the
School of Information Technology.

The murder of Jinaga comes close on the heels of a
string of murders of students of Indian origin from Andhra
Pradesh.

Soumya Reddy, a post-graduate student, was killed by an
unidentified assailant in Chicago in September this year.

Another post-graduate medical student A. Srinivas was
found murdered in Pennsylvania in March while A. Kirankumar
and K. Chandrasekhar Reddy, both PhD students, were shot dead
at Louisiana University in December 2007. PTI SJR