Friday,
November
28,
2008, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)
200 still trapped in Oberoi hotel
Fighting continues at Nariman Mumbai, November 27
As many as 125 people,
including 14 police personnel, have been killed in the Mumbai
terror attacks, the Union Home Ministry said tonight. Quoting
latest figures received from Mumbai, the ministry said the
dead also included six foreigners and one home guards jawan.
The remaining 104 were public.
Editorial Terrorism
can be fought only if we are united By H.K. Dua
IF
nothing else, the attacks in the heart of Mumbai must
shake the nation out of its familiar tendency to lapse
into complacency after a crisis is over. The terrorists,
obviously masterminded from abroad, struck at
prestigious targets in India’s commercial capital not
just for the heck of it. They have indeed given a notice
that they are at war with India and whatever it stands
for.
Nine
foreigners killed Mumbai, November 27
At least nine foreigners,
including a woman, were killed and 18 injured when
heavily-armed terrorists attacked two luxury hotels and other
public places here in one of the worst terror strikes in the
country.
‘Don’t
travel to Mumbai’ Foreign
nations issuing advisories New Delhi,
November 27
Foreign nations today
started issuing travel advisories to their citizens to avoid
travelling to Mumbai in the wake of the audacious terror
attacks on the metropolis as the United States offered its
full assistance to the Indian authorities to deal with the
crisis.
People duck as gunshots are fired from inside the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai on Thursday. — Reuters
Terrorists
did recce, set up control rooms in luxury hotels Mumbai, November 27
Terrorists who struck Mumbai had
set up advance “Control Rooms” in the luxury Taj and Trident(Oberoi)
hotels, which was also targeted and did prior recce executing plans
worked “over months”, union cabinet minister Kapil Sibal said
tonight.
Pak
foreign minister assures cooperation Says attacks barbaric, inhuman Chandigarh, November 27
Pakistan’s foreign minister
Makhdhoom Shah Mahmood Quereshi today said his country would cooperate
with Indian authorities investigating the terror strikes in Mumbai. He
condemned the action as ‘barbaric’ and ‘inhuman’.
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