An Indian woman student from Andhra Pradesh was killed in the United States by unidentified miscreants, family sources said here on Tuesday.
Arpana Jinaga (24), student of MS at Seattle, was killed in the early hours (IST) of Saturday, family sources said.
The incident came to light after three days and an investigation has begun, they said adding the cause and circumstances of the murder were not immediately known.
Jinaga completed her engineering from a city-based private engineering college in 2005.
She was working as a software engineer and simultaneously pursuing MS.
Jinaga's father, B C Jinaga, is a professor with the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University here and heads the School of Information Technology.
The murder of Jinag0a in US came close on the heels of a string of murders of NRIs from Andhra Pradesh.
While Chandrasekhar Reddy Komma and Kiran Kumar Allam, both PhD students, and another PG medical student A Srinivas, were killed last year, T Soumya Reddy and her cousin Vikram
Reddy were killed in September this year.
A young, 24-year-old woman and student in Seattle has been killed under mysterious circumstances after moving to the United States from Andhra Pradesh.
Arpana Jinaga, who came to the US to earn her MS degree, was killed last week, although the location of the murder was not immediately released.
Jinaga was killed sometime Friday night, according to family sources, and was one of the top-20 professionals of embedded systems in the world, according to a report. Arpana Jinaga's murder is the fifth of its kind this year after a string of mysterious murders claimed the lives of five Indians from Andhra Pradesh.
