Remains of missing USF doctoral student Nahida Bristy found

Human remains found Sunday during the search for a missing University of South Florida doctoral student were confirmed as belonging to Nahida Bristy, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said Friday.

Human remains found Sunday during the search for a missing University of South Florida doctoral student were confirmed as belonging to Nahida Bristy, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said Friday.

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The remains of Zamil Limon, who was also a doctoral student at the school and previously dated Bristy, were found last week alongside Howard Frankland Bridge in Tampa.

"We have located Nahida Bristy. We have contacted her family. We are now actively working to release both bodies for religious reasons back to the families who live in Bangladesh," Sheriff Chad Chronister said at a news conference. Limon and Bristy were Muslim, according to the university's Muslim Student Association.