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Remains of Indian victim killed in Dhaka hostage crisis arrive home

Xinhua, July 4, 2016 Adjust font size:

The remains of the 19-year-old Indian girl killed in the attack on a Dhaka restaurant by gunmen last weekend arrived here Monday, said local media.

The remains of Tarushi Jain arrived at the Indira Ghandi International airport in Delhi form the Bangladeshi capital, to be received by officials of India's northern Haryana state where the girl hailed from.

The body would be taken the community center in Gurgaon outside Delhi for people to pay their last respects and the cremation would be held in the evening.

Tarushi Jain had come home from the United States for summer vacations in India and Bangladesh and gone out to Holey Artisan Bakery with two of her friends on Friday evening, when the gunmen stormed it, killing 19 other people, mostly foreigners.

Her friends were also killed in the attack.

Her father, Sanjeev Jain, has been running a garment business in Dhaka for over a decade, according to media reports.

India was shocked by Dhaka's attack and has beefed up security along its border with Bangladesh. Endit