Barely a fortnight after the murder of an IT professional from Andhra Pradesh in the United States, another Indian student was shot at today by unidentified persons in the southern American state of Tennessee.

Pulluri Shashank (22), an MBA student at University of Middle Tennessee, was fired at near his apartment in the varsity campus and is stated to be out of danger, his father Pulluri Sudhakar, a resident of Excise Colony at Hanamkonda in Warangal, said.

The incident occurred when Shashank and his friends were going inside their flat after returning from an outing. Shashank went out to take his bag from the car when he was shot at by a man who is suspected to be an Afro-American, he said quoting Shashank's friends.

Shashank was rushed to a hospital and is stated to be out of danger, Sudhakar said.

The student from Andhra Pradesh did his BE course from a private engineering college at Huzurabad in Warangal district and went to US one-and-half-year ago, said Sudhakar, who is an officer in the state cooperatives department.

The incident came hardly a fortnight after the murder of Arpana Jinaga, a software professional at Redmont, Washington DC.

T Soumaya, 23, who was doing MS in electrical engineering at the Southern Illinois University, and her cousin Vikram Eeddy, 27, a software engineer were found murdered in Chicago in September.

Earlier, A Srinivas, a PG medical student, was murdered in Pennsylvania. Komma Chandrasekhar Reddy and Allam Kirankumar, both PhD students, were killed last year in their apartment in Louisiana University campus.