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Identities, nationalities of dead in Dhaka restaurant attack

Johura Begum shows a photograph of her brother-in-law Saidul Islam, who works at the Holey Artisan Bakery and currently missing, at the site of an attack by heavily armed militants, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, July 2, 2016. The dramatic, 10-hour hostage crisis that gripped the Bangladesh's diplomatic zone ended Saturday morning as commandos raided the popular restaurant where dozens of foreigners and Bangladeshis were dining out during the Ramadan holy month. (AP Photo) Johura Begum shows a photograph of her brother-in-law Saidul Islam, who works at the Holey Artisan Bakery and currently missing, at the site of an attack by heavily armed militants, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, July 2, 2016. The dramatic, 10-hour hostage crisis that gripped the Bangladesh's diplomatic zone ended Saturday morning as commandos raided the popular restaurant where dozens of foreigners and Bangladeshis were dining out during the Ramadan holy month. (AP Photo)

By Associated Press July 2, 2016 2 min read

A partial list of nationalities and identities of those reported slain in the Dhaka restaurant attack, and some details on their lives, as reported by local media.

Italians confirmed dead by the Italian Foreign Ministry (9):

Nadia Benedetti: a managing director for a Bangladeshi branch of a British firm.

Claudio Cappelli: 45, lived in Vedano al Lambro, near Monza.

Vincenzo D’Allestro: 46, Swiss-born, lived in Accera, southern Italy.

Claudia Maria D’Antona: 56, worked in clothing and textiles business. Her husband, Gianni Boschetti, whom she had met in 1993 in India, survived the attack. When she lived in Italy, in the early 1980s, she served as a volunteer helping disaster victims, including those in the 1980 Naples area earthquake.

Simona Monti: 33, worked in a textiles firm.

Adele Puglisi: 54, a quality control manager from Catania, Sicily, who was due to head back to Italy any day.

Maria Rivoli: 34, from the Bergamo area of northern Italy, mother of 3-year-old, traveling in Bangladesh for textile business

Cristian Rossi: 47, business manager for Feletto Umberto, married father of 3-year-old twin girls. He had previously worked as a buyer for an Italian textile company, then worked in his own clothing import business involving clothing made in a Dhaka factory.

Marco Tondat: 39; had been in Bangladesh for about a year, worked in textiles industry, was about to return home.

One Italian not accounted for, according to the ministry

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Japanese confirmed dead by the Japanese Foreign Ministry (7):

Five Japanese men and two women, all working on a Japanese government aid project in Dhaka, who were dining at the restaurant under siege Four of the seven have been identified:

Koyo Ogasawara

Makoto Okamura

Yuko Sakai

Rui Shimodaira

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Indian confirmed dead by India (1):

Tarushi Jain: 18, a student at University of California-Berkeley who was visiting her businessman father in Bangladesh

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Bangladeshis, not immediately identified, confirmed dead (3):

In addition, two police officers died at a hospital after being wounded in the gunfire, according to Bangladesh police.

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Nationalities not immediately available, confirmed dead by Emory University (2):

Abinta Kabir: a second-year student at Emory University, Georgia, from Miami

Faraaz Hossain: a student at Emory University, Georgia, from Dhaka