Three students from American universities were among the victims of an armed attack at a restaurant in Bangladesh early Saturday, university and foreign officials confirmed.
At least 20 hostages were killed in a 10-hour standoff before security forces stormed the restaurant in the capital, Dhaka, and killed six of the attackers, Bangladeshi officials said.
A student at the University of California, Berkele, Tarishi Jain, was one of those killed. University officials said Jain, 19, who had graduated from the American International School in Dhaka, had come to the Berkeley in 2015 planning to major in economics.
Jain had been working on e-commerce growth at Eastern Bank Limited in Dhaka through an internship with a university center for Bangladeshi studies, which began in early June, university officials said.
The two other students killed, Abinta Kabir and Faraaz Hossain, were studying at Emory University in Atlanta.
Kabir, who was from Miami, was a rising sophomore at Emory's Oxford College, university officials said in a statement. Hossain, who was from Dhaka, had graduated from the same college and was headed into the Goizueta Business School in the fall, university President James Wagner wrote.
The attacks resonated around the world globe as details emerged about the other victims.
Nine of the dead were Italian, according to that country's foreign ministry. In Japan, the state minister for foreign affairs, Seiji Kihara, said one Japanese national had been rescued, but that seven others were unaccounted for.
The U.S. State Department also confirmed that one U.S. citizen was among the victims.
