March 5, 2008 No Clues about Indian
Student's Suicide
in US
New York
An Indian student found dead in the US state of Pennsylvania had
committed suicide and was not murdered, the police have said.
However, the reason why he would take his own life is not yet clear.
Akkaladevi Srinivas, 29, was found dead Saturday in a pool of blood
with stab wounds to his neck. He was a second year internal medicine
post-graduate student as part of the Scranton-Temple Residency
Programme (STRP) at Mercy Hospital in Scranton town in northeast
Pennsylvania.
"It is not a case of homicide, but suicide," Detective Pat Tobin of
Scranton police department told IANS.
The coroner's office in Scranton confirmed the suicide but gave no
further details.
Pardeep Bansal, Srinivas's friend and fellow STRP resident in
internal medicine, said Srinivas's body was found in his apartment
and knife wounds indicated several attempts to kill himself.
According to Bansal, Srinivas was estimated to have died a couple of
days before his body was found by friends who came to check on him.
Finding the apartment locked, they called the police.
"A note found scribbled on a mirror in Srinivas' apartment said he
was taking his own life," Bansal told IANS.
But the reason Srinivas, who was unmarried and lived alone,
committed suicide is not clear, he said.
"His friends noticed no signs of depression in him. The reason was
certainly not professional, nor was it girlfriend related," Bansal
added.
About 50 people, mainly residents from the STRP programme, attended
a memorial for Srinivas Tuesday at a funeral home where his body was
kept.
The deceased student's sister lives in Cincinnati and her husband
had come to Scranton after hearing about his death.
However, Bansal could not tell if the student's body would be flown
to India.
Srinivas's family in Karimnagar, Andhra Pradesh, came to know about
his death Sunday.
He had gone to the US for higher studies in 2002 after finishing his
MBBS from Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad. Srinivas had come to
Scranton after finishing his MS degree.
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