Prayer service held for murdered USF student Nahida Bristy

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A prayer was held at the Islamic Society of Tampa Bay for Nahida Bristy.

She is one of the two USF doctoral students who were murdered last month. Her family is awaiting her remains in Bangladesh, where funeral arrangements are being made.

“We are here alone, without our family, a long way from our home,” Omer Hossain, Nahida Bristy’s friend, told NewsChannel8. “So we become a family for each other. So for me, it’s like they are like my family. So I lost my family.”…

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