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Emory students killed in Bangladesh remembered as leaders

Shankar Taramangalam looks over photographs at a shrine for two fellow Emory University students killed in a Bangladesh militant attack, Abinta Kabir and Faraaz Hossain, at Seney Hall at the Oxford College campus where they attended in Oxford, Georgia, Sunday, July 3, 2016. Kabir and Hossain were among the 20 hostages slain in a brutal attack in an upscale restaurant in Bangladesh's capital.
Shankar Taramangalam looks over photographs at a shrine for two fellow Emory University students killed in a Bangladesh militant attack, Abinta Kabir and Faraaz Hossain, at Seney Hall at the Oxford College campus where they attended in Oxford, Georgia, Sunday, July 3, 2016. Kabir and Hossain were among the 20 hostages slain in a brutal attack in an upscale restaurant in Bangladesh's capital. Shankar Taramangalam looks over photographs at a shrine for two fellow Emory University students killed in a Bangladesh militant attack, Abinta Kabir and Faraaz Hossain, at Seney Hall at the Oxford College campus where they attended in Oxford, Georgia, Sunday, July 3, 2016. Kabir and Hossain were among the 20 hostages slain in a brutal attack in an upscale restaurant in Bangladesh's capital.

By Associated Press 3 min read

photo Korede Omole, left, and Shankar Taramangalam set out flowers for their two fellow Emory University students killed in a Bangladesh militant attack Friday, Abinta Kabir and Faraaz Hossain, at Seney Hall at the Oxford College campus where they attended in Oxford, Georgia, Sunday, July 3, 2016. Kabir and Hossain were among the 20 hostages slain in a brutal attack on a restaurant in Bangladesh.

ATLANTA – Friends remembered two Emory University students as campus leaders Thursday during a vigil on the Atlanta campus, days after they were killed in an attack on a restaurant in Bangladesh’s capital by armed extremists that claimed more than 20 lives.

About 200 people filled the university’s Cannon Chapel to pay tribute to Faraaz Hossain and Abinta Kabir, sharing stories of their friendships and prayers for healing.

Emory officials have said Kabir was entering Emory’s Oxford College as a sophomore. She was visiting family and friends in Bangladesh at the time of Friday’s attack. Hossain was a student at the university’s Goizueta Business School in Atlanta and a graduate of Oxford College. The vacationing friends met up at the restaurant, joined by 18-year-old Tarishi Jain, an undergraduate at the University of California at Berkeley. Jain also died.

Both Hossain and Kabir held leadership roles on the Student Activities Committee at Oxford College, earning reputations as kind, sensitive and helpful while planning campus-wide events.

Chase Jackson, another student member of the committee, said in a statement read aloud Thursday that people in need of advice “would flock” to Kabir and her “loving personality.” Hossain greeted everyone with a broad smile, and “his heart was bigger than anyone else’s,” Jackson wrote.