Efforts On To Bring Back Body Of Student Killed In Ukraine: Karnataka Chief Minister
NDTV
The 21-year-old Indian, a student of Kharkiv National Medical University, was reportedly standing in a queue to buy food when he was killed in Russian shelling in Ukraine's Kharkiv.
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Saturday said that efforts to bring back the body of Naveen Shekharappa, an MBBS student who died in shelling in war-torn Ukraine, is in progress.
"An attempt to bring back Naveen's (an MBBS student who died in shelling in Ukraine) body is in progress," Mr Bommai told the media persons in Bengaluru.
"Several Kannadigas have been brought back from Ukraine. There is a situation in Kharkiv, Kyiv, that cannot be overcome. The embassy is also tracking down the trapped. We have also spoken to the Union Foreign Minister and the Embassy of Ukraine," he added.
