Hyderabad, Feb 7 (PTI) The parents of a student from Khammam district of Telangana, who allegedly died of a gunshot wound in the US, have requested governments' help in bringing the body back home.

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Akhil Sai Mahankali, 25, from Madhira town in Khammam district, died in the State of Alabama, US, on Monday and an Indian national was arrested and charged with manslaughter, police said.

Mahankali was studying MS in the US. He went there three years ago and did part-time jobs, his parents said on Tuesday.

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Their son had said his course would complete in another three months and that he would get a job.

His weeping mother said she never imagined her son would come back home dead.

“We'd sent him for higher studies. Never imagined even in the dreams that we will lose our son like this,” she said.

His parents requested the Telangana, India and the American governments to help in sending their son's body to their native place. His family is planning to conduct the last rites at Miryalaguda.

Police and medics in the US found Akhil Sai Mahankali with a life-threatening gunshot wound at about 9:30 PM on Sunday. They took him to the hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead, according to the Montgomery Advertiser, a newspaper.

Both the deceased and the accused are from Montgomery, the capital city of Alabama, it said, adding that Goli is now in jail.

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