India, Sept. 10 -- Iryna Zarutska, the Ukrainian refugee who was fatally stabbed in a Charlotte train last month, was not buried in Ukraine. Her last rites and a funeral were held in North Carolina despite the Ukrainian embassy's request. On Tuesday, officials revealed that it was the 23-year-old's family who had made the request, saying she 'loved America'.

US Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina Russ Ferguson and FBI agent James Barnacle Jr in a media briefing on Tuesday, said that the Ukrainian embassy offered help to bring Zarutska's body back to her homeland. But her mother and uncle wanted her to remain in the US.

"She loved America. We're going to bury her here," the family told Barnacle. Ferguson added that the co...