Something horrible is happened in Mumbai. 120 people are dead and 250 injured in a coordinated series of attacks on luxury hotels, train stations, and tourist attractions in India’s financial capital – Mumbai. At least seven sites were struck. And the death toll could easily climb much higher. 60 lifeless bodies and over 200 injured people were brought to a single hospital, according to DNA Mumbai.
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Terrorists “armed with AK-47 rifles and grenades” stormed the “passenger hall” of Mumbai’s Chhatrapathi Shivaji Terminus (CST) train station. They “and opened fire and threw grenades,” according to Mumbai General Railway Police Commissioner A. K. Sharma. 30 people were injured.
Above picture illustrates the operation where an Indian National Security Guard commando abseils from a helicopter onto the rooftop of Nariman House at Colaba Market. (Picture courtesy The Telegraph and Getty)
These are the important places attacked by terrorists:
Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus – Shooting
Leopold Cafe, Colaba – Shooting
Hotel Taj Mahal Palace & Tower – Shooting and 6 bomb explosions, Fire on top floor, hostages
Hotel Trident Oberoi – Shooting, explosions
Mazagaon Docks Explosion
Vile Parle suburb, North Mumbai – Explosions
Cama Hospital- Shooting, Hostages Taken
JW Marriot, Juhu -Shooting – Explosion
“A little-known group, the Deccan Mujahideen, has claimed responsibility,” the AP reports. The strikes “come after a series of blasts attributed to Islamist terrorists over the summer and autumn in other cities around India,” the Wall Street Journal notes.
Firing was also reported at Cama Hospital in south Mumbai, police said, adding that a blast was reported in a taxi under a flyover in suburban Vile Parle,” the paper says. Three persons were killed in a bomb explosion in a taxi on Mazegaon dockyard road and an equal number were gunned down at [the] Taj Hotel.
Bellboys could be seen rushing the injured out on luggage trolleys, according to DNA Mumbai. The victims included three senior police officers, including the head of [the state's] anti-terror squad, the Wall Street Journal reports.
More bloodshed could come from the Taj attack. The gun-toting terrorists who hit the landmark hotel also took 15 people, half of them foreigners, hostage on the roof of the luxury Taj Hotel, an escaped hostage tells the Times of India. The attackers, men in their early 20’s, honed in on anyone with British or American passports, an eyewitness said.
Survivors of the attack on the Oberoi hotel told a similar story. A British restaurant-goer tells Sky News television that “the attackers were singling out Britons and Americans.”
Read more reactions round the world where people condemned this attack as one of the most vicious terror attack since 9/11 and 7/7.
- Mumbai Attacks: Terrorism has no Religion. An excellent coverage by Langar Hall, provides insights on terrorism linked with religion. If you read the comments you will find that people are really concerned about the issue.
- Mumbai Terror Attack Escalates Tensions Between India, Pakistan. Steve Herman from Voice of America write exclusively about the chill in relations between the two nuclear-armed neighbors comes as commandos in Mumbai launched their final assaults on three sites.
- ‘Everyone’s taking cover now’: reporting the Mumbai terror attacks. The Guardian UK published an interesting story: “After news of the Mumbai terror outrage broke, how did news agencies cover the rapidly unfolding events?”
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Indian intelligence is so super intelligent that within hours of Mumbai seige they knew who was behind that, I think FBI, Scotland Yard and other intelligent agency should hire indian intelligence officiers. Konowing the history of indians skill for lying I believe they knew that even before the attack. Further, in all such attacks all the terrorist got killed and no arrest, this is really very strange.