Nitheesha Kandula was last seen in Los Angeles.
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A 23-year-old Indian student has been missing in the US state of California since last week and police have sought the public’s help to find her, the latest case in the country as the community grapples with a series of such incidents involving students are.
Nitheesha Kandula, a student at California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB), went missing on May 28, according to police.
She was last seen in Los Angeles and was reported missing on May 30, John Guttierez, chief of police, CSUSB, said in a post on X on Sunday.
“#MissingPersonAlert: The California State University, San Bernardino Police Department, along with our partners in #LAPD, are asking anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of @CSUSBNews Nitheesha Kandula to contact us at: (909) 537-5165” , the police said.
Kandhula was described as 6 feet tall and weighing about 150 pounds, with black hair and black eyes, police said in a written statement.
According to the affidavit, she may have been driving a 2021 Toyota Corolla with a California license plate whose color was unknown.
Police urged anyone with information on her whereabouts to contact authorities, saying: “Anyone with information is urged to contact the CSUSB Police Department at (909) 538-7777, or the Southwest Division from the LAPD at (213) 485-2582.” Last month, 26-year-old Rupesh Chandra Chintakind, an Indian student, was reported missing in Chicago.
Earlier in April, a 25-year-old Indian student who had been missing since March was found dead in the US city of Cleveland. Mohammad Abdul Arfath, who hails from Nacharam, Hyderabad, arrived in the US in May last year to pursue a Masters in IT from Cleveland University.
In March, a 34-year-old trained classical dancer from India, Amarnath Ghosh, was shot dead in St. Louis, Missouri.
Sameer Kamath, a 23-year-old Indian-American student at Purdue University, was found dead on February 5 at a nature preserve in Indiana.
On February 2, Vivek Taneja, a 41-year-old IT manager of Indian descent, suffered life-threatening injuries during an attack outside a restaurant in Washington.
In January, 18-year-old Akul Dhawan, a student at the University of Illinois, was found unconscious outside a campus building. An investigation revealed that he died due to hypothermia, with authorities ruling that acute alcohol intoxication and prolonged exposure to extremely cold temperatures significantly contributed to his death.
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