Dhaka terror attack: 'bangle city' mourns its daughter's killing

Uttar Pradesh’s Ferozabad town, popularly known as the “bangle city” (it is famous for its bangle and glass industry), is in mourning after the killing of Tarishi Jain, who hailed from the town, in the terror attack in Dhaka.

Tarishi’s father Sanjay Jain, who has his ancestral home at Suhag Nagar locality in the town, deals in ready-made garments and lives in Dhaka.

The family came to know about the terror attack last night. “We came to know about the attack around 10 last night....a little later we got information that Tarishi was also there in the restaurant,” said Rajiv Jain, Tarishi’s uncle, in Ferozabad on Saturday.

He said that the news of Tarishi’s death came in the early hours. “We are in shock.....we just could not believe it...we are planning to go to Dhaka to be with the other members of the family,” Rajiv added.

Tarishi’s “mausi” (mother’s sister) said Union Minister for Foreign Affairs Sushma Swaraj had spoken to the family in Ferozabad and assured to arrange for visa to enable them to travel to Dhaka. She said that Tarishi was a “lively” girl.

Rajiv said that Tarishi, who studied in the USA, had been visiting her father on vacations and had gone to the ill-fated restaurant with her friends, when the attack took place.

The news of Tarishi’s death in the terror attack sent the entire town into mourning and people made a beeline before the Jains’ residence at Suhag Nagar to pay their condolences.

Assam on high alert following attack

In the wake of terror attacks in Bangladesh, an alert has been sounded across Northeast, particularly in Assam, which has been on the hit list of radical Islamic groups, including ISIS, DHNS reports from Guwahati.

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has put Border Security Force (BSF) on high alert on the Indo-Bangladesh border and intelligence agencies have been asked to share inputs with the Northeast states bordering Bangladesh, official sources added. We have not seen any direct threat of ISIS in Assam but the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) had been very active and we have arrested many of their trained cadres who were having links with fundamentalists in Bangladesh. Thus the Dhaka attack needs to be analysed and we are doing it. Meanwhile, we have asked our forces to be alert,” Assam DGP Mukesh Sahai said.