Arpana Jinaga, a woman student from Andhra Pradesh was found murdered in the US by unidentified persons. 24 years old, pursuing her MS degree at Seattle, was killed sometime on Friday evening local time.

The tragedy came to light three days after the crime & an investigation has begun. Arpana Jinaga, who completed her engineering from a city based private engineering college in 2005, was working as s software engineer & simultaneously pursuing MS.

Arpana’s father, B C Jinaga, is a professor with the Jawaharlal Nehru Technology University in Hyderabad & heads the School of Information Technology.