Dhaka attack: Gunmen kill US boy after he refuses to leave female friends

Twenty people were killed after seven gunmen stormed into the hotel killing mostly non-Muslims who could not or refused to recite Quran.

A US national from the Emory University, who was one of the hostages at the Holey Artisan bakery in Dhaka, was brutally killed after he rejected his captors’ offer that he could walk free if he left behind his two female friends.

Identified as Faraaz Hossain, the US student was held hostage in the bakery along with his two female friends -- Abinta Kabir, 18, and Tarishi Jain, 19.

Hossain had to make a choice of either staying with his terrified pals or leaving them alone after the gunmen told him that they will not free the girls as they were non-Muslims and belonged to India and the US.

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While trying to save themselves from the gunmen, Hossain and his friends hid in a toilet from where one of his friends Tarishi called up her father and told him about the hostage situation.

“Terrorists have entered the restaurant. I am very afraid and not sure whether I will be able to come out alive. They are killing everyone,” Tarishi told her father.

Twenty people were killed after seven gunmen stormed into the hotel killing mostly non-Muslims who could not or refused to recite Quran. The dead included nine Italians, seven Japanese and a citizen each from the United States and India.