Dhaka victims include Indian student: Sushma Swaraj

Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj claimed that an Indian female student is among the 28 dead at Holey Artisan cafe.

In a tweet this afternoon, Swaraj said, “I am extremely pained to share that the terrorists have killed Tarishi, an Indian girl who was taken hostage in the terror attack in Dhaka.”

“Tarishi was 19 years old. She passed out from American School Dhaka. Presently, she was a student at Berkeley,” she said in her another tweet.

She has spoken to her father Shri Sanjeev Jain and conveyed deepest condolences. “The country is with them in this hour of grief.”

“We are arranging visa for the family. My officers are on the job,” she tweeted.

Tarishi Jain, an Indian citizen who is a resident in Bangladesh, was in the country for summer vacation and was among those trapped inside the café, a popular hangout for foreigners in Dhaka's diplomatic zone of Gulshan.

She recently got admitted at the University of California, Berkeley, her father Ziam Sanjeev’s friend Rashid Hassan Khan told The Daily Star.

Tarishi went to the café after Iftar yesterday with two of her friends.