Another Indian-origin Student Found Dead In US, Marking Fourth Death This Year (X image)
Indian student found dead at Indiana. The 23-year-old Indian-origin doctoral student of Indiana’s Purdue University, Sameer Kamath, was found dead in woods at Nature’s Preserve. The incident marked the second death of Indian student at the university and fourth such case in Washington this year.
The body was discovered around 5pm at Crow’s Grove Nature Preserve, as per Warren County Coroner Justin Brummett. Sameer Kamath, who had completed his master’s degree in mechanical engineering at Purdue in 2023, was pursuing further studies in the same department. According to Coroner’s office, he held US citizenship.
Probes by the Warren County Coroner’s Office and sheriff’s office are undergoing over the circumstances of death. An autopsy was scheduled to take place at Crawfordsville. The tragic death of Kamath follows the death of Neel Acharya, another Indian student at the same University, who was found dead on the campus after being reported missing last month. Acharya was a double major in computer science and data science.
In a separate incident, Vivek Saini, a 25-year-old Indian student studying his master’s degree in Georgia was killed by attack from a homeless person, identified as Julian Faulkner, inside the store where he worked. The fatal attack, in which the man hit Saini 50 times with hammer was captured on a video.
Last week, Shreyas Reddy, another Indian student was found dead in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Indian mission in New York acknowledged Reddy’s death and noted that there was no suspicion of foul play at the stage of investigation.
In January, Akul Dhawan, an 18-year-old Indian-origin freshman pursuing electrical engineering at the University of Illinois, was also found dead close to the university campus. The autopsy report suggests that the changes in Dhawan’s skin were consistent with hypothermia. That was not it, last year, on November 26, a 26-year-old Adiya Adlakha was shot dead inside a car. She was a PhD student in molecular and developmental biology program.
