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2nd LD Writethru: Indian girl killed in Dhaka hostage crisis

Xinhua, July 2, 2016 Adjust font size:

An Indian girl was among 20 civilians killed in an armed siege at a restaurant in the Bangladeshi capital, Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Saturday.

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

"I have spoken to her father Shri Sanjeev Jain and conveyed our deepest condolences. The country is with them in this hour of grief," she said.

Twenty hostages, mostly foreigners, were brutally killed by terrorists inside a restaurant in Dhaka's diplomatic zone Friday night and Saturday morning.

India put its border forces on alert Saturday in eastern and northeastern states bordering Bangladesh. The Home Ministry has directed the Border Security Force and other agencies to keep strict vigil along the international borders. Endit