Emory University announced on Saturday, July 2, that two of its students, Abinta Kabir and Faraaz Hossain, were among those taken hostage and murdered by terrorists in the July 1 attack in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
They were among 20 hostages killed during a 10-hour siege on a bakery in the diplomatic zone of the Bangladesh capital. Also among those killed was Tarushi Jain, a student at University of California, Berkeley, who was visiting her businessman father, and nine Italians and seven Japanese.
According to Emory, Ms. Kabir of Miami, Fla. was a rising sophomore at Emory’s Oxford College, and Mr. Hossain, a junior from Dhaka, was a graduate of Oxford College and a student at the university’s Goizueta Business School.
Emory President James Wagner said in a statement, “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. In the wake of this terrible loss, the university is offering support to members of our community through counseling services.”
The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, which also killed two police officers.
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