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These chilling pictures show the smiling ISIS terrorists who murdered 20 hostages in a Bangladesh cafe.

The media arm of the ruthless organisation released images of five young men, posing with what appears to be the same gun in front of an ISIS flag.

The young men are believed to be responsible for storming a cafe in the Bangladeshi capital, taking hostages and brutally murdering at least 20 people

ISIS claimed they had killed '22 crusaders' including two police officers on Friday.

Three American college students were amongst the dead, it was revealed earlier today.

(Image: Twitter) (Image: Twitter)

Tarishi Jain, 19 and a student at the University of California Berkley, was killed during the 10 hour standoff in the capital city of Dhaka, the New York Daily News reports.

(Image: Twitter) (Image: Twitter)

Officials at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, also confirmed two of its undergrads, Abinta Kabir and Faraaz Hossain, were among the dead.

Faraaz, a Dhaka native, graduated the university’s two-year liberal arts school earlier this year and was heading into the business school in the autumn, campus officials said.

(Image: Facebook/Faraaz Hossain)

Kabir, 18, was from Miami but born in Bangladesh.

She traveled to Dhaka earlier this week and planned to spend part of her summer vacation visiting family and friends.

The teenager went to the café after Iftar, an evening meal Muslims eat during the month of Ramadan, to meet up with friends, her cousin Afsara Adiba said in a Facebook post.

(Image: Facebook/Abinta Kabir)

“But she didn't (come) back alive!” Adina wrote. “I just don't get it she and the other people were innocent.”

Officials at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, also confirmed two of its undergrads, Abinta Kabir and Faraaz Hossain, were among the dead.

(Image: Facebook/Tarishi Jain)

Faraaz, a Dhaka native, graduated the university’s two-year liberal arts school earlier this year and was heading into the business school in the autumn, campus officials said.

The Islamist militants struck on the last weekend before the Muslim religious festival of Eid al-Fitr.

A rescued hostage told the Bangladeshi Daily Star, the militants tortured those who could not recite the Koran.

(Image: Facebook/Shayan S. Khan)

Dozens of diners were at the cafe, which is popular among foreigners and middle-class Bangladeshis.

Several embassies, including the British High Commission, are situated in the neighbourhood.