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Another Indian origin person shot dead in US

| | Mar 05, 2017, at 06:28 am
New York, Mar 4 (IBNS): Few days after Kansas shooting that claimed the life of an Indian engineer, another Indian-origin man, Harnish Patel, was shot dead on Thursday night outside his home in USA in Lancaster under South Carolina, according to media reports.

Patel was a businessman- a store owner- in Lancaster.

According to a media reports, Harnish was shot dead near his house after closing his shop at night which was few kms away.

Lancaster County Police said that they received call at 11.33 PM when some people dialled 911 after hearing the shouts and scream.

This is the second time within a short span that Indian origin people were attacked and killed in US.

In the end of February, Indian origin engineer Srinivas Kuchibhotla was shot dead in a pub while he was hanging out with friends.

However local officials refused to call the attack on Patel having a racial motive.

“I do not have any reason to believe that this was racially motivated,” County Sheriff  Barry Faile told media on Friday.

Nicolo Jones, a frequent customer to the shop owned by Harnish, told WBTV: “Who would do anything this to him, as good as he is to everybody.”

US President Donald Trump just two days before this attack condemned the Kansas attack as “hate and evil.”

 

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