Dujarric was responding to a question whether Guterres had any comment on rising hate crimes in the US against people from South Asia including the incident in Kansas City in which the 51-year-old US navy veteran shot two Indian engineers, killing one and injuring the other.
Srinivas Kuchibhotla, 32, was killed and another Indian man and an American were injured after the man yelling “get out of my country” and “terrorist” opened fire on them in an apparent racially-motivated hate crime.