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US Killings: Mamata Banerjee writes to Sushma Swaraj

| | Mar 06, 2017, at 09:42 pm
Kolkata, Mar 6 (IBNS): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said she wrote to External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj over the recent attacks on Indians in the US.

Banerjee urged Swaraj to to take the matter up with the highest US authorities.

In a Facebook post, Banerjee said: "Today I have addressed a letter to Sushma Swaraj ji, Union Minister of External Affairs, on the recent incidents of attacks and unfortunate deaths of young Indians in the United States."

She said: "It is indeed a matter of great concern and my heart goes out to share the sufferings that have come upon their family members.Since the number of Indians studying, working, living in the US is very large, such incidents are causing a situation of panic amongst their family members living in India."

Banerjee said: "I have requested the Union Minister to kindly see that the matter is taken up at the highest level, so that these types of incidents do not recur and the Indians living in the US feel safe, secure and worry-free.I thought of sharing this information with all of you."

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