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| Missing Indian student dead |
| Minal, an architecture student had gone missing after Monday's shootout at the university.
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 18-April-2007
2:23:28 AM |
| Indian embassy officials have confirmed that 26-year-old Minal Panchal, an Indian student at Virginia Tech University, is dead.
Minal, an architecture student had gone missing after Monday's shootout at the university.
University authorities have announced two or three hours ago that she was one of the causalities in the shooting, said Prof Kumar Mallikarjuna, Associate Professor, Virginia Tech.
The reason they could not confirm Minal was that she did not have an ID. It took them some time to find out who she was. They took the fingerprints and were trying to relate that to the immigration papers, he added.
Called 'Minu' by her friends, 26-year-old Minal Panchal went to Our Lady Of Remedy High School in Mumbai and later graduated from the Rizvi college of Architecture in Bandra, Mumbai.
Her neighbours remember her as a very bright student who ranked high in the CET exam.
She went to Virginia Tech University in August 2006. She was passionate about the environment and architecture and was also fond of reading, sketching, watching movies and spending time with friends.
Thousands of well-wishers have logged onto the web and paid their condolences to Minal or her Orkut web page.
Minal's father passed away a few years ago and her mother was reportedly visiting her other sister who also lives in the United States.
For two days Indians on the campus had been dealing with emotional trauma of their own and there were angry questions about why it took so long to identify Minal's body.
I do not think this is a case of raising false hopes. This is the way these things are done in this country. There are certain layers of positive identification needed and that is what they did, said Krishan Verma, an Indian Embassy official in Washington DC.
Indian professor killed
A graduate student from Mumbai, Minal was in the class being taught by professor G V Loganathan, the other Indian who was killed in the campus carnage.
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