Tarishi made a last-ditch phone call for help: her uncle

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Press Trust of India Gurgaon
Last Updated : Jul 04 2016 | 9:07 PM IST
Shortly before she was hacked to death at a Dhaka restaurant, Tarishi Jain, the Indian girl killed in the terror attack there, hid in a toilet from where made a frantic phone call to her uncle for help.
According to Tarishi'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 Ramesh weeping inconsobly at the funeral of the girl here.
Tarishi, 19, a student of the University of California, had gone to the restaurant Holey Artiste in Gulshan locality of Dhaka with her friends. She was on a holiday in the Bangladesh capital on Friday last.
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First Published: Jul 04 2016 | 9:07 PM IST

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