New Delhi: It is a story of sacrifice that will not be forgotten easily. Faraz Ayaz Hossain, a student at Emory University in the US, who was among the 20 hostages killed in the terrifying attack by terrorists at a Dhaka restaurant, apparently spurned an offer from the militants to leave as he didn’t want to desert his two female friends and fellow passengers.
One of these two friends happened to be Tarishi Jain, the Indian girl who lost her life in the gruesome attack, and the other was Abinta Kabir. All three were enrolled at US universities.
Hishaam Hossain, a nephew of faraz, told The New York Times that the terrorists had released a group of women wearing hijabs. Faraz was also offered the chance to leave the café along with them. However, when the two women accompanying him in Western outfits were refused an exit, Faraz chose to stay nehind.
When Bangladeshi army commandoes stormed into the bakery and ended the 10-hour-long siege after killing six of the seven suspected ISIS militants, all three American universities’ students were found dead. The commandoes managed to rescue 13 hostages.
The three had known each other from the time when they studied at the American International School Dhaka. Later, the three went to college in America – Faraz and Abinta went to Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, whereas Tarishi took admission in the University of California, Berkeley.
The suspected ISIS militants tortured and killed the hostages who were unable to recite from the Quran, whereas they left those who could do so.
