{"id":300176,"date":"2018-07-08T11:39:46","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T11:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=300176"},"modified":"2018-07-08T11:39:46","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T11:39:46","slug":"sushma-swaraj-assures-to-provide-all-assistance-to-the-family-of-student-killed-in-kansas-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sushma-swaraj-assures-to-provide-all-assistance-to-the-family-of-student-killed-in-kansas-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Sushma Swaraj assures to provide all assistance to the family of student killed in Kansas city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-300177 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sushma-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/sushma-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/sushma-342x420.jpg 342w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/sushma.jpg 525w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/>External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday condoled the death of Sharath Kopuu, an Indian student killed in Kansas City in the US during a robbery attempt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sharath Kopuu, who hails from Telangana, was shot dead on Friday, during a suspected incident of robbery at J\u2019s Fish and Chicken Market, where he worked as a part-time employee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kopuu came to the US in January to pursue his master\u2019s degree at University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sushma Swaraj in a tweet said, \u201cKansas incident &#8211; My heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family. We will follow this up with the Police and provide all assistance to the family.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI have spoken to Sharath&#8217;s father Shri Ram Mohan Reddy in Hyderabad to convey our heartfelt condolences. We have offered that in case a family member wishes to go to Kansas, we will facilitate the US Visa. Else we will bring the mortal remains at the earliest,\u201d she said in another tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Consulate General of India in Chicago expressed condolences and promised to provided all assistance. \u201cDeepest condolences to the family of K Sharat who was victim of a shooting in Kansas City Missouri. Consulate officials are on the way. We will provide all assistance,\u201d the consulate tweeted on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Meanwhile the Kansas City Police has released a video of the suspect and has announced a USD 10,000 reward for information leading to him.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday condoled the death of Sharath Kopuu, an Indian student killed in Kansas City in the US during a robbery attempt. Sharath Kopuu, who hails from Telangana, was shot dead on Friday, during a suspected incident of robbery at J\u2019s Fish and Chicken Market, where he worked as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":300177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[3481,1161,2426,3482,3469,2226],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300178,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300176\/revisions\/300178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}