<p>A 20-year-old Bangladeshi student, who was at the Dhaka cafe when it was stormed by suspected ISIS militants, had the option of fleeing to safety after the hostage-takers let him go but chose to stand by his friends including the Indian victim and was subsequently killed.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Faraaz Ayaaz Hossain has garnered widespread praise on social media, with netizens hailing him as "hero".<br /><br />Hossain, who was studying at Emory University in Atlanta, US, had come to Bangladesh on his summer holidays and visited the Holey Artisan Bakery with two foreign friends – Abinta Kabir, a US citizen and also a student of Emory University, and Tarishi Jain, an Indian and a student of the University of California, Berkeley.<br /><br />When the captors came to know about the women’s citizenship they refused to release them. They, however, allowed Hossain to flee, according to a freed hostage.<br /><br />Hossain refused to leave his friends and was subsequently killed.<br /><br />Businessman Rezaul Karim, whose son, daughter-in-law and two grandchildren were taken hostage but later freed, told The Daily Star: "My daughter-in-law told me that she heard a Bangladeshi youth refused to leave the restaurant when militants offered to free him."<br /><br />"They wouldn't let two of his friends go," he said.<br /><br />Twenty people were killed in the 12-hour siege on the cafe in the diplomatic area in the Bangladeshi capital by suspected ISIS militants on July 1.<br /><br />Netizens came out in rich tributes for the youth for being the "hope" at a time the so-called Islamists carried out the country's worst hostage crisis during which those who could not read out verses from the Quran were reportedly tortured. <br /><br /></p>
<p>A 20-year-old Bangladeshi student, who was at the Dhaka cafe when it was stormed by suspected ISIS militants, had the option of fleeing to safety after the hostage-takers let him go but chose to stand by his friends including the Indian victim and was subsequently killed.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Faraaz Ayaaz Hossain has garnered widespread praise on social media, with netizens hailing him as "hero".<br /><br />Hossain, who was studying at Emory University in Atlanta, US, had come to Bangladesh on his summer holidays and visited the Holey Artisan Bakery with two foreign friends – Abinta Kabir, a US citizen and also a student of Emory University, and Tarishi Jain, an Indian and a student of the University of California, Berkeley.<br /><br />When the captors came to know about the women’s citizenship they refused to release them. They, however, allowed Hossain to flee, according to a freed hostage.<br /><br />Hossain refused to leave his friends and was subsequently killed.<br /><br />Businessman Rezaul Karim, whose son, daughter-in-law and two grandchildren were taken hostage but later freed, told The Daily Star: "My daughter-in-law told me that she heard a Bangladeshi youth refused to leave the restaurant when militants offered to free him."<br /><br />"They wouldn't let two of his friends go," he said.<br /><br />Twenty people were killed in the 12-hour siege on the cafe in the diplomatic area in the Bangladeshi capital by suspected ISIS militants on July 1.<br /><br />Netizens came out in rich tributes for the youth for being the "hope" at a time the so-called Islamists carried out the country's worst hostage crisis during which those who could not read out verses from the Quran were reportedly tortured. <br /><br /></p>