- Title: Indians mourn Kansas shooting victim in home-town funeral
- Date: 28th February 2017
- Summary: HYDERABAD, TELANGANA, INDIA (FEBRUARY 28, 2017) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (ANI - NO ACCESS BBC) ***WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** FAMILY AND FRIENDS STANDING AROUND BODY OF THE KANSAS SHOOTING VICTIM, SRINIVAS KUCHIBHOTLA KUCHIBHOTLA'S FATHER MOURNING KUCHIBHOTLA'S MOTHER (SOUNDBITE) (English) BROTHER OF KANSAS SHOOTING VICTIM SRINIVAS KUCHIBHOTLA, V. MADHAV, SAYING: "We are (have) also requested the government to ensure that this kind of incident should not happen to any family." KUCHIBHOTLA'S FATHER PERFORMING A HINDU RITUAL AROUND THE BODY PEOPLE PARTICIPATING IN RITUAL KUCHIBHOTLA'S FATHER STANDING IN FRONT OF BURNING PYRE FUNERAL PYRE BURNING
- Embargoed: 14th March 2017 11:09
- Keywords: India Hyderabad funeral engineer Srinivas Kuchibhotla Kansas shooting
- Location: HYDERABAD, TELANGANA, INDIA
- City: HYDERABAD, TELANGANA, INDIA
- Country: India
- Topics: Crime/Law/Justice
- Reuters ID: LVA00165FOSAV
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: THIS EDIT CONTAINS CONVERTED 4:3 MATERIAL
Dozens of people gathered in the Indian city of Hyderabad on Tuesday (February 28) for the funeral of an engineer shot dead in the United States last week, an attack that has raised fears for the safety of Indians abroad.
A white U.S. Navy veteran has been charged with the murder of Srinivas Kuchibhotla, 32, in a case that U.S. authorities are investigating as a possible hate crime, the official term for crimes motivated by bias or prejudice.
Friends stood around Kuchibhotla's body which was garlanded with flowers ahead of his last rites, while some relatives wiped away tears, television footage showed.
Kuchibhotla's body was flown in late on Monday (February 27) from Kansas where he was shot in a bar while another Indian and an American, who tried to intervene, were wounded.
Married four years ago, Kuchibhotla worked as an aviation engineer in the United States, one of the many Indians who go abroad each year in search of a better education or career prospects.
Kuchibhotla and his wife spent the initial years of their marriage living their American Dream, working, partying and traveling across the United States.
His death has raised concern about safety among members of the Indian-American community. More than 3 million Indians live in the United States, many of whom have taken part in candlelight vigils and marches in Kuchibhotla's memory.
His brother, V. Madhav, reiterated that the Indian government should ensure this would not happen to others. - Copyright Holder: ANI (India)
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