ATLANTA (AP) -- The Latest on Emory University students who died in militant attack in Bangladesh.
10:50 a.m.
Emory University says two of its students were among 20 victims of an extremist attack in Bangladesh.
University president James Wagner said in emails to employees that Faraaz Hossain and Abinta Kabir were among 20 victims killed when militants took hostages at a restaurant in the South Asian nation's capital of Dhaka on Friday.
Kabir was a student at the school's campus in Oxford. She was visiting family and friends in Bangladesh when she was taken hostage and killed. Hossain had completed his second year at Oxford and was headed to the business school in the fall.
School spokeswoman Elaine Justice says Kabir was a sophomore from Miami, Florida; and Hossain was from Dhaka.
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A student at Emory University has been identified by the school as one of the victims of an attack in Bangladesh that left 20 people dead.
University president James Wagner said in an email to employees that Abinta Kabir was among those killed when militants took hostages at a restaurant in the South Asian nation's capital of Dhaka on Friday.
Kabir was a student at the school's campus in Oxford. She was visiting family and friends in Bangladesh when she was taken hostage and killed in the Dhaka attack.
Wagner said he had been in touch with Abinta's mother and that she was in "unspeakable pain" over her daughter's death.
Wagner urged employees to direct their thoughts and prayers to Abinta's mother and family.
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This story corrects location references from Southeast Asian to South Asian throughout
Our thoughts and prayers go out on behalf of Faraaz and Abinta, their friends and family for strength and peace at this unspeakably sad time
— Emory University (@EmoryUniversity) July 2, 2016
Faraaz Hossain, who was from Dhaka, was a 2016 graduate of Oxford College and a student at Emory’s Goizueta Business School.
— Emory University (@EmoryUniversity) July 2, 2016
Our thoughts and prayers go out on behalf of Abinta and her family and friends for strength and peace at this unspeakably sad time.
— Emory University (@EmoryUniversity) July 2, 2016
.@MarcoRubio statement on #Bangladesh attack ID's American killed as Abinta Kabir, a college student from Miami. pic.twitter.com/IXInbK32E9
— WPTV (@WPTV) July 2, 2016
