UC Berkeley remembers Tarishi Jain, killed in Dhaka attack

Hundreds of friends, professors and students held a vigil Tuesday on UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza in memory of Tarishi Jain.

A University of California, Berkeley sophomore who was among the 20 hostages killed over the weekend by militants in Bangladesh is being remembered as a kind and smart young woman.

Hundreds of friends, professors and students held a vigil Tuesday on UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza in memory of Tarishi Jain, a sophomore who was in the capital of Dhaka for a summer internship.

A flower memorial is seen on the steps of Sproul Plaza at University of California Berkeley. (Photo: AP)

UC Berkeley Chancellor Nick Dirks and several of Ms Jain's friends and dorm mates spoke next to an enlarged photograph of the smiling 18-year-old, a large bouquet of white flowers and American, Indian and Bangladeshi flags.

Dirks says -"we have lost a precious member of our community, and we are so much the poorer because of it.-"

Ms Jain graduated from the American International School in Dhaka and transferred to Berkeley in 2015. She planned to major in economics.