Top Asian News 9:18 a.m. GMT

[WorldNews]

BANGKOK (AP) — When Faraaz Hossain's family received his body after the deadly siege at the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka, Bangladesh, they noticed the palm of his right hand had been sliced clean through. The wound suggested the 20-year-old Faraaz, the family's beloved youngest child, had grabbed the attacker's sword and tried to fight back. "There were a lot of visible signs on his body that he fought hard," Zaraif Hossain, Faraaz's brother, told The Associated Press. Faraaz, a student at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, was visiting family back home in Bangladesh when he was caught up in the 10-hour hostage crisis on the evening of July 1.

Continue reading...