A sixth Indian student of Andhra Pradesh origin has been attacked in the US in the last one year when a youth pursuing his MBA in Tennessee was shot at by a suspected Afro-American.

Pulluri Shashank (22), an MBA student at University of Middle Tennessee in siuthern US, 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 here, told PTI. In the previous attacks where the Indian students were victims, all the five died.

The incident occurred when Shashank and his friends were entering 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, Sudhakar said quoting Shashank's friends.

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

He did his BE course from a private engineering college at Huzurabad in Warangal district and went to US 18 months back, said Sudhakar who is an officer in the state cooperatives department.

The incident came just a fortnight after the murder of Arpana Jinaga, a Hyderabadi software professional at Redmont, Washington D.C.

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.