Three U.S. university students among dead

Three students from American universities were among the victims of an armed attack at a restaurant in Bangladesh early Saturday, university and foreign officials confirmed.

A University of California, Berkeley student was among those killed, the Indian minister of external affairs, Sushma Swaraj, said in a series of messages on Twitter.

Berkeley officials later said Tarishi Jain, a 19-year-old who had graduated from the American International School in Dhaka, had come to the university in 2015 planning to major in economics.

Jain had been working on e-commerce growth at Eastern Bank Limited in Dhaka through an internship with a university center for Bangladeshi studies, which began in early June, university officials said. Her father was a textile merchant based in Dhaka.

The two other students killed, Abinta Kabir and Faraaz Hossain, were studying at Emory University in Atlanta. Nine Italians were confirmed dead by the Italian Foreign Ministry. Seven Japanese were confirmed dead by the Japanese Foreign Ministry. Five Japanese men and two women, all working on a Japanese government aid project in Dhaka, were dining at the restaurant under siege.

Three Bangladeshis, not immediately identified, were confirmed dead. In addition, two police officers died at a hospital after being wounded in the gunfire, according to Bangladesh police.