Akkaladevi Srinivas, 29, an Indian student pursuing a post-graduation in internal medicine as part of the Scranton-Temple Residency Programme (STRP) at Mercy Hospital in Scranton town in northeastern Pennsylvania was found dead on Saturday.

The police said Srinivas was found in a pool of blood with stab wounds to his neck. They also confirmed that the Indian student had committed suicide and was not murdered. His name on the STRP website appears as a house staff physician with an MD degree.

"It is not a case of homicide, but suicide," Detective Pat Tobin of Scranton police department.

However, the coroner's office in Scranton confirmed the suicide but was not ready to release further details.

Srinivas' family in Karimnagar, Andhra Pradesh, was reported as saying that they got to know about his death on Sunday. Srinivas went to the US for higher studies in 2002, after finishing his MBBS from Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad.
Srinivas' family says that when he called home last Wednesday, he seemed his cheery self. They now want his body to be brought back to India at the earliest.

This is the fourth murder of an Indian student in the US in the last four months. In December 2007, two students from Andhra Pradesh, Chandrasekhar Reddy Komma and Kiran Kumar Allam, were shot dead in Louisiana and on January 18, 2008, engineering student Abhijit Mahato was murdered in North Carolina.

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