American university students among the dead in Bangladesh hostage attack

Three college students who attended American universities were among the 20 hostages killed by Islamic State-affiliated attackers in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Saturday.

One was a 19-year-old Indian citizen named Tarushi Jain who was studying at the University of California at Berkeley, said Indian Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj. The other two were both students at Georgia's Emory University, where Abinta Kabir was a sophomore who hailed from Miami and Faraaz Hossain was a graduate student from Dhaka.

"The Emory community mourns this tragic and senseless loss of two members of our university family," Emory said in a Facebook post on Saturday. "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."

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