They were three friends from American universities, meeting up over summer vacation in Dhaka.
Two were studying at Emory University in Georgia: Faraaz Hossain from Dhaka, and Abinta Kabir from Miami, Florida, who was visiting family and friends in Bangladesh.
The third, 18-year-old Tarishi Jain, was an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley. She was an Indian citizen, whose father Sanjeev Jain moved to Bangladesh nearly two decades ago and runs a garment business there.
Tarishi was a frequent visitor to Holey Artisan Bakery, located near her home.
"The country is with them in this hour of grief," India's minister for external affairs, Sushma Swaraj tweeted. Her body will be flown to New Delhi on Monday, and the cremation will take place in the northern Indian town of Firozabad, the Jain family's home town.
Kabir was entering Emory's Oxford College as a sophomore, and Hossain was a graduate of Oxford College and a student at the university's Goizueta Business School in Atlanta.
Both were active on the Student Activities Committee executive board at Oxford, and fellow student Kereisha Harrell said they were also part of an honor society that required a GPA of 3.9 or higher.
"We are honestly shocked," she said. "A lot of us are not ready to talk about it. But we were a family. It hit us hard. There are a lot of people very upset. We're just trying to support each other through this."
