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White House reacts to recent attacks on Indians in USA, says violence based on race unacceptable

| @indiablooms | Feb 16, 2024, at 04:16 pm

The White House on Thursday reacted to the recent attacks on Indian students in the US and said there is no excuse for violence based on race.

John Kirby, Coordinator for Strategic Communications at the National Security Council in the White House, said during a press briefing: "There’s no excuse for violence, certainly based on — on race or — or gender or religion or any other factor."

He said such incidents are 'unacceptable' in India.

"The President and this administration has been working very, very hard to make sure we’re doing everything we can to work with state and local authorities to try to thwart and disrupt those kinds of attacks and make it clear to anybody who might consider them that they’ll be held properly accountable," he said.

Several Indian-origin people found dead in the USA in 2024

Indian-origin student Sameer Kamath was found dead in the woods at a nature preserve in the  USA last week.

He was a doctoral student at Indiana's Purdue University.

Four other deaths of Indian-origin students were recorded in the USA this year

Recently, 19-year-old Shreyas Reddy Beniger, a student at the Linder School of Business in Ohio, was found dead.

Purdue University student Neel Acharya was found dead on the university campus, hours after his mother had reported him missing.

Vivek Saini, from Haryana, was hammered to death by a homeless man in Georgia's Lithonia on Jan 16.

Akul Dhawan, another Indian student, was found dead outside the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in January.

Hyderabad student injured after being chased and attacked by four men in Chicago

Meanwhile, a student from Hyderabad has received grave injuries after being attacked by four armed robbers near his house in the US state of Chicago.

A video shows the student, who was bleeding profusely, stating that he was kicked and punched by the robbers. The robbers also snatched his phone.

The victim-Syed Mazahir Ali, a resident of Langar Houz in Hyderabad, had gone to the US to pursue a Master's degree from Indiana Wesleyan University.

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