A 20-year-old Bangladeshi student, who was at the Dhaka cafe when it was stormed by suspected ISIS militants, had the option of fleeing to safety after the hostage-takers let him go but chose to stand by his friends, including the Indian victim and was subsequently killed.
Faraaz Ayaaz Hossain has garnered widespread praise on social media, with netizens hailing him as “hero”. Hossain, who was studying at Emory University in Atlanta, US, had come to Bangladesh on his summer holidays with two foreign friends — Abinta Kabir, a US citizen and also a student of Emory University, and Tarishi Jain of the University of California, Berkeley.