04-18-2007, 06:13 AM
<b>Virginia Tech's missing Indian student dead</b> <!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->New Delhi: Missing Indian student Minal Panchal who had not been contactable since the Virginia Tech University massacre on Monday was confirmed dead late on Tuesday night.
Minal, a Masters student in Building Sciences, was in the Norris Hall of the university when the shooting took place.
"The Indian Embassy has learnt with great sorrow that apart from Indian American Professor G V Loganathan, a first year student Minal Panchal is also among the victims," a senior official of the Embassy told PTI.
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Minal's mother, who incidentally arrived in the US two weeks back, reached the University campus only on Tuesday. She was accompanied by a relative.
Information about Minal's death came in late because no immediate family member was present on campus.
There were 32 bodies at the Regional Medical Centre and so identification of the bodies took time.
This is the second Indian casualty. Professor Loganathan was also shot at Norris Hall.
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Minal, a Masters student in Building Sciences, was in the Norris Hall of the university when the shooting took place.
"The Indian Embassy has learnt with great sorrow that apart from Indian American Professor G V Loganathan, a first year student Minal Panchal is also among the victims," a senior official of the Embassy told PTI.
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Minal's mother, who incidentally arrived in the US two weeks back, reached the University campus only on Tuesday. She was accompanied by a relative.
Information about Minal's death came in late because no immediate family member was present on campus.
There were 32 bodies at the Regional Medical Centre and so identification of the bodies took time.
This is the second Indian casualty. Professor Loganathan was also shot at Norris Hall.
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