India on Wednesday urged the United States to carry out a thorough investigation after a video on social media showed a police officer laughing at the death of an Indian student after being hit by a speeding police car in Seattle.

The Consulate General of India in San Francisco said that reports on the case were “deeply troubling”. The mission said that it had taken up the matter with local authorities in Seattle as well as senior officials in the capital city of Washington DC. The consulate general called for action against those involved and said it will closely follow up on the matter.

Following this, the US government has assured the Indian government of swift investigation, PTI reported. Senior officials in the US administration have told India’s Ambassador to the US Taranjit Singh Sandhu and the Indian government that they are taking the case very seriously.

On January 23, the student, 23-year-old Jahnavi Kandula, was hit by a car being driven by a police officer named Kevin Dave, who was on his way to look into a case of an overdose. The police officer was said to have been driving at 119 kilometres per hour, and Kandula was thrown over 100 feet due to the impact, according to The Seattle Times. She died later that night.