Dhaka: While the entire world is condemning the gruesome Dhaka attack, silently peeps out a story of valour and courage of a 20-year-old youth.

Faraz Hossain’s religion is obvious by his name. A Bangladeshi by birth, this young brave man stood by his friends and laid down his own life for their cause.

Social media is flooded with messages calling Hossain a ‘hero’.

After taking the patrons hostage, the terrorists had allowed the locals to leave in the Dhaka attack. On Friday morning, they released a group of women wearing hijabs and offered Faraz the opportunity to leave too, New York Times quoted his nephew, Hishaam Hossain, as saying.

But, Faraz stayed back because the terrorists did not set his Indian and American friend free. Hours later his body was found along with the dead bodies of his friends-Indian student Tarishi Jain and Bangladeshi American Abinta Kabir at the Holey Artisan Bakery in the upscale Gulshan area.

Faraz, who was studying at Emory University in Atlanta, US, had come to Bangladesh on his summer holidays. That day, he was meeting Jain, a student of University of California, Berkeley, and fellow undergraduate from Emery University, Abinta Kabir.

Netizens paid tributes for Faraz, saying he offered “hope” at a time when so-called Islamists tortured those who could not read out verses from the Quran.

Twenty hostages were killed in the 12-hour siege on the cafe on July 1. Most of them were tortured, shot and then mutilated with machetes, Bangladeshi officials have said.