U.S. President Barack Obama ordered flags to fly at half-staff at the White House and other federal buildings in honour of the victims of the shooting at a Gurdwara at Oak Creek near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Sunday.Even as he called for “soul-searching” the Indian embassy in Washington confirmed that four out of the six Sikhs killed in the attack were Indian nationals, with one of them being a “recent visitor from India.” Witness accounts on Sunday had suggested that a Sikh priest visiting from New Delhi had been among those shot at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin.
Indicating that the shooting, suspected to have been carried out by army veteran Wade Michael Page, may have been a hate crime, Mr. Obama said to reporters, “If it turns out, as some early reports indicate, that it may have been motivated in some way by the ethnicity of those who were attending the temple, I think the American people immediately recoil against those kinds of attitudes.”
He added that it would in that case be important for Americans to reaffirm that “regardless of what we look like, where we come from, who we worship, we are all one people, and we look after one another and we respect one another.”
Meanwhile Indian Ambassador to the U.S., Nirupama Rao, confirmed that Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna had spoken with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who was on a visit to South Africa.
Mr. Krishna was said to have conveyed the “deep distress felt by the government and people of India on the tragic killings of innocent worshippers at the Gurudwara.” Ms. Clinton expressed her sense of shock, sadness and personal condolence at the tragedy, the embassy added.
The embassy has also been in touch with the Chief Minister of Punjab, Parkash Singh Badal, who was said to have spoken directly with Ms. Rao on Monday morning. He was assured that the embassy “would offer all possible support to victims of the Oak Creek killings,” Ms. Rao said, adding that appropriate consular assistance was being provided to those caught up in the events in Wisconsin.
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