Tarishi Jain, Killed In Dhaka Attack, Cremated In Gurgaon

Dhaka/Gurgaon: The last rites of Tarishi Jain, the 19-year-old Indian student killed by terrorists at a Dhaka cafe on Friday, were performed in Gurgaon this evening, after prayers were offered at a city community centre.

Central and state ministers were among those who paid tributes when the body arrived from Dhaka today.

She was among 20 hostages hacked to death by seven terrorists who attacked the upmarket cafe in the Bangladesh capital.

The UC Berkeley student's body was brought to India from Bangladesh by a Jet Airways flight that landed in Delhi this afternoon, with the casket wrapped in the national flag. Tarishi was among 20 hostages killed in the Dhaka attack. The terrorists separated the foreigners from the locals at the cafe in a high-security zone in Dhaka and murdered them.

Six gunmen were killed in a gunfight with security forces and one was captured alive to end an 11-hour siege on Saturday.

Through the night, Tarishi's father Sanjeev Jain waited outside the cafe for word about his young daughter. In India, her family was glued to television sets for some news about the siege, Tarishi's uncle Rajiv Jain said in Firozabad, Uttar Pradesh.

"I spoke to my brother in the morning and he said that he had no hope of Tarishi being alive after a message from her at night", Mr Jain told NDTV.

"She was supposed to come down from Dhaka to meet us. Now we'll only meet her at the funeral", grieved Tarishi's aunt Bhavna Jain.

Tarishi's cousin Saloni said she had reached out to the Indian authorities to seek help. "When we received the news, I was helpless and tweeted Sushma Swaraj to help my sister", she said.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj spoke to Tarishi's father and said the government has arranged visa for her family to fly to Dhaka.

"I am extremely pained to share that the terrorists have killed Tarushi, an Indian girl who was taken hostage in the terror attack in Dhaka," she tweeted.