Dhaka Attack Victim Tarishi Jain’s Body Brought Back to India

Mangalore Today News Network

New Delhi, July 4, 2016: The body of Indian teenager Tarishi Jain, who was among those hacked to death by Islamic terrorists in a terror attack at a Dhaka restaurant, was on Monday brought to Delhi. Her last rites will take place in Gurgaon.

"It is a case of brutal killing - an unnatural death. Some legal procedure has (to) be completed," External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Twitter.

Tarishi, a student at UC Berkeley, was on vacation in Dhaka. Her father runs a garment business in Bangladesh for the last 15-20 years, according to officials.

Twenty foreigners, including eight Italians, seven Japanese and the Indian student, were brutally murdered by the terrorists inside the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka’s diplomatic zone before commandos launched an assault on Saturday, killing six attackers and capturing one alive, ending Bangladesh’s worst terror attack.

The bodies of the victims were recovered during a search in the Bakery compound after the operation.

Jain had graduated from the American International School in Dhaka, and began studying at the University of California Berkeley in 2015. Berkeley officials said she intended to major in economics.

The university said in a statement that since early June she had been in Dhaka on an internship at Eastern Bank Limited working on e-commerce growth.

"We are all very devastated," said Sanchita Saxena, executive director of the California university’s Institute for South Asia Studies and director of its Center for Bangladesh Studies.

"She was a smart and ambitious young woman with a big heart. Our deepest condolences to her family, friends, and the entire Berkeley community," the University said.