courtesy of Facebook Anita Datar
NOVEMBER 21, 2015, 9:01 AM LAST UPDATED: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2015, 11:51 PM
BY JOHN SEASLY
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
A 41-year-old former Peace Corps volunteer and global-health specialist is the latest person with roots in North Jersey to become a victim of global terror.
Anita Ashok Datar, a graduate of Mount Olive High School and Rutgers University, was one of at least 19 people killed in Friday’s terror attack on a hotel in Mali, the State Department confirmed in a statement.
No other U.S. citizens were believed to have died in the attack, carried out by heavily armed Islamic extremists at a Radisson hotel in the Malian capital of Bamako.
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Datar, a resident of Takoma Park, Md., was the mother of a 7-year-old boy. She devoted her life to caring for and helping others, her family said.
“We are devastated that Anita is gone,” her family said in a statement issued through the State Department. “It’s unbelievable to us that she has been killed in this senseless act of violence and terrorism.”
