Family in shock over student’s death in US

US authorities have found the body of Abdullah Alkadi, the Saudi scholarship student who had gone missing from his Los Angeles home in September, near a highway overpass south of the city.
Alkadi’s body was found late on Thursday night alongside Interstate 10 east of Cook Street in Palm Desert, California, some 250 km away from his university.
Alkadi, 23, had been living in the US for nearly four years.
His last tweet, expressing distress, was published on Sept. 15.
Family members told local media that diplomats visited their home on Friday morning to break the news to them.
The Los Angeles Police Department Criminal Investigation Division has refused to disclose any details into the case until Monday and has not openly identified any suspects. 
Family members have, however, reportedly told local media that two people have been detained in connection with the case.
A family friend also told local media that Alkadi’s brother, who had launched a tireless appeal on social media in search of his brother and who had eventually traced his mobile phone to an area with which he had no ties with, was too distraught to make any formal statements.
Alkadi’s father, meanwhile, is reportedly on the way to the US.