United States: Indian doctor stabbed to death in Kansas

Hyderabad: An Indian doctor, who belonged to Telangana, was on Thursday stabbed to death in Kansas state of the United States, said a family source here.

Achutha Reddy, a psychiatrist, was murdered in his clinic in East Wichita, on Wednesday night. US police has arrested a young man.

Informed sources quoted the US police as saying that the assailant, aged 21, repeatedly stabbed the doctor after a conversation. It was not yet clear if the attacker was his patient.

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Reddy was affiliated to some other hospitals in the region. He was a specialist in absolute yoga.

Hailing from Nalgonda district, Reddy graduated from Osmania Medical College in 1986. He later moved to the US, where he completed his residency in psychiatry from the University of Kansas Medical School in Wichita.