Indian girl killed in Dhaka attack: Sushma Swaraj

Published: 2 July 2016, 11:45 AM
Indian girl killed in Dhaka attack: Sushma Swaraj

An Indian girl was gunned down by terrorists at Holy Artisan Bakery of Gulshan-2 in Dhaka, said Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj on Saturday.

Tarushi Jain was 19 years old. She had done her schooling from American School Dhaka, reports Times of India.

In a twitter post, Sushma Swaraj said, ‘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’.

It is mentionable that, Gunmen killed 20 people, mostly with sharp weapons, shortly after taking hostage a number of diners at a cafe in Dhaka’s diplomatic zone on Friday night.