Mumbai Blasts

Mumbai Blasts

Information about the blasts that took place in the western railway trains can be found here with the most updated news information from various sources. New info

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Terror attacks in Mumbai, over 127 killed By agencies MUMBAI: Over 101 people are reported to have been killed and more than 300 are reported injured as unidentified groups of gunmen opened fire in at least four places across south Mumbai on Wednesday night. Terrorists used heavy machine guns, including AK-47s, and grenades to strike at the city’s most high-profile targets - the hyper-busy CST (formerly VT) rail terminus; the landmark Taj Hotel at the Gateway and the luxury Oberoi Trident at Nariman Point; the domestic airport at Santa Cruz; the Cama and GT hospitals near CST; the Metro Adlabs multiplex and Mazgaon Dockyard ... Read Full Story
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Indian commandos Friday evening battled the last of terrorists still holed up at the landmark Taj hotel after taking control of another luxury hotel and an apartment complex as the death toll in the country’s longest running hostage saga was put at 143, including at least eight foreigners. Even as all surviving hostages from the three buildings finally walked free, traumatised by two days of naked terror, India identified the only terrorist to be captured as a Pakistani national while Islamabad denied any involvement and denounced the audacious terror strike. J.K. Dutt, head of the National Security Guard (NSG), whose elite commandos were airdropped ... Read Full Story
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New Delhi : The attack on Mumbai, the commercial capital of India, by terrorists who subjected the city to unprecedented violence for three days during the last week of November, has many lessons for the nation to learn. The terrorists may not have been able to bring down the Taj Mahal, the Oberoi-Trident, Café Leopold and Nariman House, but they have been successful in achieving their main objectives — which was to kill as many people as possible and depict the city, and India, as an unsafe place. The television networks in India gave wide coverage to the event from start to finish as ... Read Full Story
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Nov. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Hostages taken at a Jewish center during attacks across Mumbai two days ago were killed, while commandos freed more than 200 people from the Indian city’s Oberoi-Trident hotel complex, officials said. “There were two gunmen and five hostages” lying dead in Nariman House, site of the Chabad-Lubavitch Center, Motti Bukchin, a spokesman for the Israeli emergency response organization Zaka, said today in a telephone interview from Jerusalem. Three bodies were found on one floor and more on another level of the Jewish center’s building, J.K. Dutt, director general of the National Security Guard commando unit, said in an interview with ... Read Full Story
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Bollywood actor's sister trapped in MMumbai, Among the many people who are awaiting the release of their family members from the clutches of the terrorists here is Bollywood actor Ashish Chaudhary, whose sister and brother-in-law are held hostage at the Oberoi Trident Hotel. "My sister Monica and her husband have been inside the hotel along with maybe 40 other hostages. They came here for dinner last night, but now they are not answering any calls," he told a news channel Thursday."My parents have been here since last night and when we last heard from them, they told us that they have seen two terrorists ... Read Full Story
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Railway station patrol in Gauhati

Railway station patrol in Gauhati

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