UP CM Akhilesh Yadav offers help to families of students killed in Ukraine

Pranav and his roommate Ankur Singh died of stab injuries, another student named Indrajeet Singh was seriously injured.

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Lucknow | Updated: April 12, 2016 01:56 PM IST

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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has directed officials concerned to extend all possible help to the families of the two Indian students who were stabbed to death in Ukraine and another who sustained injuries in the attack.

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“The Chief Minister has directed the district magistrates concerned and the Resident Commissioner of UP in New Delhi to extend all possible help to aggrieved families and coordinate with Indian Embassy in Ukraine to ensure that the bodies are brought back,” an official spokesman said.

Pranav Shandilya of Muzaffarnagar and Ankur Singh of Ghaziabad were stabbed to death in Ukraine on April 10. Inderjeet Singh Chauhan of Agra also sustained injuries in the attack and is hospitalized.

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