Bangladesh has declared two days of national mourning for those killed when Islamic militants stormed a cafe in the capital, Dhaka. Twenty hostages, most of them foreign, were killed in the attack. Two police officers also died and 30 were injured.
Bangladeshi commandos rescued 13 people after a 12-hour siege, killing six gunmen and arresting another. Nine Italians, seven Japanese, one US citizen and an Indian were among the dead. One Italian is unaccounted for.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36696445The victims Nine Italians Cristian Rossi, A 47 year old , businessman, married and the father of two three-year-old twins. Mr Rossi ran a clothing consultancy, with offices in Bangladesh and China. He was on a business trip to Bangladesh.
Marco Tondat, 39year old, , worked for Studio Tex Ltd. He leaves behind a six-year-old girl.
Nadia Benedetti , 52 year old, also worked in the textile and clothing sector. She was managing director at Studio Tex Limited, based in London, with a branch in Dhaka.
Adele Puglisi, 54, was manager of a textiles company. She had been due back in Italy on Saturday morning. In April 2014, according to her Facebook profile, she started working at Artsana in Dhaka as quality control manager.
Simona Monti, 33, worked in a textiles firm and, according to reports in Italy, was five months pregnant
Claudia Maria D'Antona, 56, was managing director of Fedo Trading Ltd, an Italian textile company operating in Bangladesh, where she had been living for over 20 years with her husband, Gian Galeazzo Boschetti, the only Italian to survive the attack, worked for a charity bringing medical aid to people in Bangladesh
Vincenzo D'Allestro, 46, who was born in Switzerland but lived near Naples, and also worked in the textile industry
Maria Rivoli, 34, who worked in the textile industry and was the mother of a three-year-old
Claudio Cappelli, 45, who was from the Monza region and owned a clothing company
Seven Japanese. Five men and two women, four of whose names have been released
Koyo Ogasawara,
Makoto Okamura,
Yuko Sakai
and Rui Shimodaira
Two Bangladeshis Faraaz Ayaaz Hossai, a student at Emory University in the US,
Ishrat AkhondUS citizen Abinta Kabir, also a student at Emory University
One Indian Tarishi Jain, 18, who was a student at the University of California, Berkeley