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A 25-year-old Indian man was among three people killed when a gunman opened fire in a bank building in Cincinnati, a city in Ohio before police shot him dead on Thursday.

Guntur district-based, Pruthviraj Kandepi, was killed when 29-year-old Omar Enrique Santa Perez from the town of North Bend, Ohio, opened fire at the headquarters for the Fifth Third Bank near Fountain Square in downtown Cincinnati, police said.

India's Consul General in New York Ambassador Sandeep Chakravorty told news agency PTI that the Consulate is in touch with the police, Kandepi's family as well as members of the community.

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An official of the Telugu Association of North America (TANA) said that Kandepi was working with the bank as a consultant. Arrangements were being made to send his body to India, he added.

The other two victims were identified as Luis Felipe Calderon, 48 and Richard Newcomer, 64. Five people were shot, some multiple times, in the incident, they said, adding that the gunman felled in a shootout with officers.

By Sowmya Sangam