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Srinivas Kuchibhotla murder: White House says Kansas shooting report disturbing
Spicer also condemned the alleged hate crimes against the Jewish community and asserted that there is no space for violence based on religion and ethnicity
New Delhi: Reacting to the shooting incident at a Kansas city bar, which left Indian engineer Srinivas Kuchibhotla dead and his friend Alok Madasani injured, the White House on Tuesday said that the early reports coming from Kansas were “disturbing”. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told reporters at his daily news conference that “early reports coming from Kansas are equally disturbing”. According to PTI reports, Spicer also condemned the alleged hate crimes against the Jewish community and asserted that there was no space for violence based on religion and ethnicity.
“From our country’s founding, we’ve been dedicated to protecting the freedom of our citizen’s rights to worship. No one in America should feel afraid to follow the religion of their choosing freely and openly. The President has dedicated to preserving this originating principle of our nation,” Spicer said. “And while were at it, I don’t want to get ahead of law enforcement, but I was asked the other day about the story in Kansas, the shooting in Kansas. While the story is evolving, early reports out of Kansas are equally disturbing,” the White House Press Secretary said.
Spicer said that President Donald Trump continues to be deeply disappointed and concerned by the reports of further vandalism at Jewish cemeteries. “The cowardly destruction in Philadelphia this weekend comes on top of similar accounts from Missouri and threats made to Jewish community centers around the country. “The president continues to condemn these and any other form of anti-semitic and hateful acts in the strongest terms,” he said.
His remarks came after vandals broke and overturned more than 500 gravestones at a Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia, the latest in a spate of recent bomb threats and attacks against sites for Jews across the United States.
Meanwhile, the body of Indian techie Srinivas Kuchibhotla, was flown to Hyderabad on Monday night. His body was brought by a cargo flight, which arrived at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport around 10 p.m. Kuchibhotla’s parents K. Madhusudhana Sastry and Parvata Vardhini and other family members received the body. After completing all formalities, the body was carried in an ambulance to his house at Bachupally on the city outskirts.
Telangana Transport Minister Mahender Reddy and some leaders of ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) were also present at the airport to receive the body.The Ministry of External Affairs has made arrangements to bring the mortal remains.Police had made elaborate security arrangements at the airport and media persons were barred from the cargo terminal.
The last rites will be performed Today at Jubilee Hills, family members said.
(With inputs from agencies)
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