The body of 19-year-old Tarishi Jain, who was hacked to death by militants at a Dhaka restaurant, will be brought to India today for the last rites, even as grieving friends, teachers and family remembered her as a “passionate” person who deeply cared about human rights.
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According to reports, she had moved to the United States for higher studies after graduating from American School in Dhaka. And, she was awarded an internship program by Eastern Bank Limited in 2016 and her project was on “EBL-commerce growth opportunity in Bangladesh”.
Twenty people were killed after seven gunmen stormed into the hotel killing mostly non-Muslims who could not or refused to recite Quran.
Abinta Kabir, one of two Emory University students killed in the attack, was a “treasure to this world”, her childhood friend Emma Louisa Jacoby told CNN. Almost a dozen anxious relatives waited at the airport lounge with government officials and traveled with her to a community center in Gurgaon, an upscale New Delhi suburb. Her father is an industrialist based in the city. She was a sophomore at the college and was visiting family and friends in Dhaka when she was caught in the attack.
“The United States condemns in the strongest terms the horrific terrorist attack in Dhaka, Bangladesh on July 1-2”, said the White House Press Secretary in a statement. The family was informed about her death after 3 am on Saturday. Not much else is known other than that he had graduated from Oxford College and was a rising junior entering Emory’s Goizueta Business School.
Asked about Tarishi, Rakesh said “she was extremely sharp, bright, brilliant and intelligent student”.
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India’s minister of external affairs, Sushma Swaraj, said on Twitter that she’d spoken to Jain’s father and offered her condolences, adding that “the country is with them in this hour of grief”. “Now we’ll only meet her at the funeral”, grieved Tarishi’s aunt Bhavna Jain. “A lot of us are not ready to talk about it. But we were a family. My officers are on the job”.
