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'Get out of my country' - Indian man shot dead in US in apparent hate crime

The shooting dead of 32-year-old Srinivas Kuchibhotla has caused waves in his home country.

Purinton Police photo of Adam Purinton AP AP

AN INDIAN MAN has been killed and another wounded in a shooting being investigated by US authorities in the midwestern state of Kansas as a possible hate crime.

The two men, one of whom reportedly had lived in the US for more than a decade, were shot at a bar outside Kansas City late on Wednesday, according to The Kansas City Star newspaper.

Srinivas Kuchibhotla, 32, was killed and Alok Madasani, 32, was wounded in the attack. Both men worked as aviation systems engineers for GPS manufacturer Garmin.

Authorities arrested 51-year-old Adam Purinton, who allegedly told the men “get out of my country” before opening fire, according to the daily.

Purinton was apprehended later the same night at a restaurant, after claiming he had killed two Middle Easterners, according to the Star.

Purinton has been charged with premeditated first-degree murder and two counts of attempted premeditated first-degree murder. He is being held on a $2 million bond.

Bar Shooting Kansas FBI Special Agent Eric Jackson addressing questions from the media during a press conference at the Olathe Police Department Tammy Ljungblad Tammy Ljungblad

The FBI is trying to determine if the shooting was a hate crime, said Eric Johnson, Special Agent in Charge of the bureau’s Kansas City field office.

“We’re less than 24 hours into this investigation. I have FBI personnel working this investigation from every angle,” he said.

The shooting garnered headlines in Indian media, amid concerns that the immigration policies of President Donald Trump laid the groundwork for such an attack.

The incident comes amid a tense atmosphere in the United States, as evidence grows of increased hate crimes since the contentious presidential campaign and the election of Donald Trump.

The number of hate groups rose for the second year in a row in 2016 and anti-Muslim groups nearly tripled, according to an annual census by the Southern Poverty Law Centre.

India US Bar Shooting Jagan Mohan Reddy, father of Alok Madasani, speaking to the media at his residence in Hyderabad, India, today Mahesh Kumar A. Mahesh Kumar A.

“The growth has been accompanied by a rash of crimes targeting Muslims,” the organisation said last week.

Anti-Semitic crimes have also increased.

The Jewish Community Centre Association of North America has recorded 69 bomb threat incidents at dozens of centres in 27 US states and one Canadian province since the start of the year.

The Hindu American Foundation condemned the shooting, demanding that it be investigated as a hate crime.

“Anything less will be an injustice to the victims and their families,” the group said.

India’s government also chimed in:

“I am shocked at the shooting incident in Kansas,” tweeted India’s minister of external affairs Sushma Swaraj.

© – AFP, 2017

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    Mar 7th 2022, 8:38 PM

    Meanwhile in Ireland, we cant cut turf, and are encouraged to drive EVs, as the Russian army moves 160000 troops with diesel, and aviation fuel, and fires missile after missile as Ukraine burns releasing toxic fumes into the air

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    Mar 7th 2022, 10:38 PM

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    Mar 8th 2022, 12:00 AM

    @Ned: It is one of the bigger issues facing the world today, but not the one with the highest priority due to what is going on in eastern Europe. Another big problem with it is how our government are going the wrong way around in dealing with it, taxing what we do have, to force us to use systems that do not exist properly in the country, instead of getting the proper infrastructures in place for EVs and public transport fhrst, and then offering incentives to get people and businesses to use them. The funny thing is, concerning businesses at least, the infrastructures were there as where the bakery she worked in the late 60′s and early 70′s used electric vans and carts to deliver bread to the shops around Cork city. You can be sure they were not the only ones.

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    Mar 8th 2022, 12:04 AM

    @Ned: sorry got a but ahead of myself there. The bakery in Cork was a place my mother worked years ago and they used EVs to get the bread to the shops around the city in the mornings, and the ICE vans did the country side runs

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