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Student from Warangal shot at in US

WARANGAL: The news of the attack on the 22-year-old Indian student, Pulluri Sashanka, allegedly by a group of African-Americans in Murfreesboro, Middle Tennessee, US, has shocked his parents, who learnt about the incident from his friends. Sashanka sustained bullet injuries when the group shot at him and fled on Saturday. There was a steady stream of visitors to his parents’ house at the Excise Colony here ever since the news broke out about the incident.

“We learnt from Sashanka’s friends that four of them were returning from college. When they all reached the apartment, Sashanka went back to get books from his car when a group of blacks shot at him and fled. He clutched his stomach and struggled to reach his friends in the apartment,” Mr Sudhakar said in a choked voice.

The parents were reportedly told that the boy was safe and out of danger. He was admitted to the Nashville Hospital where he underwent an operation. The hospital authorities were refusing to give full details to friends and were asking for power of attorney from the parents. “We have many relatives around there. We asked them to reach the hospital and talk to authorities," said the boy’s uncle Pulluri Ashok Kumar.

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