India, Dec. 17 -- A Massachusetts university professor was shot dead at his home in Brookline, near Boston,US, on Monday night, media reports said.

Nuno F. Gomes Loureiro, 47, a Portuguese national and a professor of nuclear science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was shot multiple times and later succumbed to his injuries at a Boston hospital on Tuesday morning, according to Brookline police and MIT officials, the BBC reported.

No arrests have been made so far, and the incident is being treated as "an active and ongoing homicide investigation," the Norfolk County District Attorney's Office said in a statement quoted by the BBC.

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