(160702) -- DHAKA, July 2, 2016 (Xinhua) -- Security personnel patrol near a restaurant attacked by gunmen in Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 2, 2016. Gunmen have shot dead two police officials, police said, in the first attack on a foreign restaurant in Bangladesh claimed by Islamic State (IS) group jihadists. The gunmen stormed the restaurant in Bangladesh capital Dhaka's diplomatic enclave Gulshan on Friday night at about 9:00 p.m. local time. At least 40 people including two more senior police officials were injured in the incident.(Xinhua)
New Delhi/Dhaka, July 2 (IANS) An Indian girl, Tarushi Jain, was among the 20 killed by Islamic State terrorists in the siege on a cafe in the Bangladeshi capital, the Indian government has confirmed.
Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted that a girl, Tarushi, was among the 20 hostages killed by IS terrorists in the Dhaka cafe.
"I am extremely pained to share that the terrorists have killed Tarushi, an Indian girl who was taken hostage in the terror attack in Dhaka," Sushma posted on Twitter.
"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 wrote.
The 12-hour-long terrorist siege ended on Saturday morning, with the killing of six terrorists, and the capture of one gunman. Thirteen hostages were rescued.
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