Indian-origin student, who went missing during solo hiking trip, found dead in California's Sierra Nevada

WIRE — An Indian-origin student, who had gone missing during a solo hiking trip in eastern Sierra Nevada of California, has been found dead, said authorities. The deceased was identified as Vikram Mubayi, who was a PhD student at the Department of Chemical Engineering in University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).

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