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Three students at US universities reported dead in Dhaka attack
The president of Emory University said on Saturday two students were killed in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where an attack on a cafe and 12-hour siege left 20 hostages and two police officers dead.An Indian government minister said an Indian citizen who was studying at the University of California at Berkeley was also killed. Italian and Japanese officials said nine and seven citizens respectively were killed. The nationality of at least one victim remained unknown. Thirteen people were rescued after Bangladeshi police commandos stormed the Holey Artisan Bakery in the diplomatic area of the city. The two officers who died were killed during the violent standoff with police, whom militants met with gunfire and grenades. Six militants were killed. The Emory students were identified as Abinta Kabir, from Miami, and Faraaz Hossain, from Dhaka. Both attended Oxford College at the private research university in Atlanta. India’s minister of external affairs, Sushma Swaraj, named the Indian citizen who died as Tarushi Jain, 19. Posted by: Steve White 2016-07-03 |
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