Indian student among campus victims

New Delhi: An Indian student who was reported missing after this week's shooting rampage at a US university was among the 33 killed in the tragedy, along with an Indian professor, a foreign ministry spokesman said Wednesday.

Minal Panchal, 26, a first year masters building sciences student in the Faculty of Architecture from Mumbai, India, was found dead at Norris Hall at Virginia Tech University, CNN-IBN television channel reported, quoting international student council head Saurabh Attarde.

Panchal was the second Indian casualty reported in Monday's shootings, the worst such rampage in U.S. history.

"The body of Panchal has been positively identified by her mother," said Navtej Sarna, the ministry spokesman.

Her mother, a widow who lives in Mumbai, and her New Jersey-based brother-in-law have yet to decide on whether they will transport Panchal's body back to India, Sarna
said.

Two senior officials at the Indian embassy in Washington DC arrived at Virginia Tech University Tuesday to assist the families of those killed, said Sarna.