The last rites of Tarishi Jain were performed in Gurgaon. (PTI Photo)
Highlights
- Indian student Tarishi Jain among 20 hostages killed in Dhaka cafe attack
- She hid in a toilet and made a frantic phone call to her uncle for help
- She called me for help, but I couldn't save her, said her upset uncle
Shortly before she was killed at a Dhaka restaurant, 19-year-old Tarishi Jain, hid in a toilet from where she made a frantic phone call to her uncle for help.
According to Tarishi Jain's uncle Ramesh Mohan Jain, "on the night of the terror attack, she called me and narrated the entire terrible incident.
She was in a deep fear and hid in a toilet from where she called me when terrorists were searching for her. She was calling for help but I couldn't save her," said Mr Ramesh, weeping inconsolably at the funeral of the girl in Gurgaon.
Tarishi Jain, a student of the University of California, had gone to the restaurant Holey Artiste in Gulshan locality of Dhaka with her friends.
She was holidaying in the Bangladesh capital.