At least 12 of the 20 hostages who were killed in an hours-long
attack at a cafe in Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka over the weekend have
been publicly identified, including three people who attended college in
the United States, according to CNN.
Two of the students attended Georgia's Emory University. That included Abinta Kabir of Miami, who was a sophomore at Emory's campus in Oxford, Georgia. She was in Dhaka visiting family and friends, the school said.
The other was Faraaz Hossain, of Dhaka, a junior at Emory's Goizueta Business School in Atlanta.
"The Emory community mourns this tragic and senseless loss of
two members of our university family. Our thoughts and prayers go out on
behalf of Faraaz and Abinta and their families and friends for strength
and peace at this unspeakably sad time," Emory said.
The third student was Indian citizen
Tarushi Jain, 19, who was studying at the University of California at
Berkeley, according to India's minister of external affairs, Sushma
Swaraj.
At least nine of the dead were Italian nationals, Italy's Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said Saturday.
According to the Italian foreign ministry, they were: Adele Puglisi; Marco Tondat; Claudia Maria D'Antona; Nadia Benedetti; Vincenzo D'Allestro; Maria Rivoli; Cristian Rossi; Claudio Cappelli; and Simona Monti.
The Bangladeshi Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina Wazed has declared two days of mourning for the victims.
The Prime Minister thanked all those who had expressed their solidarity with Bangladesh, and said terrorism would be exterminated at all costs. The national mourning period will be observed Sunday and Monday.
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