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The overnight standoff and hostage situation in Dhaka, Bangladesh, has ended, leaving more than a dozen dead. Video provided by Newsy Newslook
Indian social activists light candles during a protest in Kolkata on July 2 against a fatal attack on a restaurant in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka. Heavily armed militants murdered 20 hostages in Bangladesh, hacking many of their victims to death, before six of the attackers were gunned down at the end of a siege.(Photo: DIBYANGSHU SARKAR, AFP/Getty Images)
The 20 hostages killed during a 10-hour siege on a bakery in the Bangladesh capital traveled there from opposite sides of the globe.
Nine Italians, seven Japanese, an Indian and two students attending a U.S. university<span style="color: Red;">*</span>were among those killed when militants stormed<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Holey Artisan Bakery, an eatery popular with foreigns in the diplomatic zone<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in Dhaka.
The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, which also killed two police officers.
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In Atlanta,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Emory University
confirmed Abinta Kabir, a U.S. citizen from Miami, Florida,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>who was visiting friends and family in the area, and Faraaz Hossain were among the dead.
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India's minister of external affairs said Tarushi Jain, 19, who was studying at the University of California at Berkeley was also killed. Jain was an Indian citizen.
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Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said the bodies of nine Italian victims were identified and one Italian is unaccounted for,
the Associated Press reported.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>One of the Italian victims was a 47-year-old manager and father of twin girls from northeastern Italy.
Out of eight Japanese nationals eating at the restaurant, seven were killed, according to the Japanese government. They were consultants working on a Japanese government aid<span style="color: Red;">*</span>project in the area.
Brig General Nayeem Ashfaq Chowdhury, director of military operations, said the victims were killed execution-style by a sharp weapon<span style="color: Red;">*</span>long before the launch of a rescue operation,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
according to the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Dhaka Tribune.
The father of one of the hostages said the gunmen tortured anyone<span style="color: Red;">*</span>who could not recite a verse from the Quran,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Daily Star<span style="color: Red;">*</span>newspaper reported.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Rezaul Karim said his son, Hasnat, was at the restaurant with his wife and children to celebrate his daughter's eighth birthday.
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Contributing: Doug Stanglin
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