No headway in US college killing

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Indian diplomatic officials have met the authorities of a US university after the killings of two Indian students on its campus.

Kiran Kumar Allam,33, and Chandrasekhar Reddy Komma,31, were found dead in an apartment at the Louisiana State University on Thursday night.

It is still unclear what the motive was for the shooting.

Of the 1,468 international students at the university, 332 are from India.

Family support

Nothing appeared to be missing from the apartment, reports say.

Two senior Indian diplomatic officials met the university chancellor Sean O'Keefe over the weekend to discuss the incident, according to a press release issued by the university.

Mr O'Keefe told the officials that the university was working to support the families of the two post-graduate students and help in transporting their bodies back to India, the release said.

University spokesman Charles Zewe told the Associated Press news agency that police were looking for three men seen leaving the Baton Rouge campus on Thursday after the incident.

It is still unclear why the two students were targeted.

Mr Allam's pregnant wife called the police after discovering the two men dead at their apartment, where Mr Komma was visiting.

Some residents told reporters that break-ins were common at the apartments housing the students.

The university said it had set up a fund to support the families of the victims.

The parent of one of the students has left for Louisiana from the southern city of Hyderabad, our correspondent says.