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Mumbai attacks: Hostages in Taj reportedly released
Thursday, 27 Nov, 2008 | 08:48 PM PST |
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ARTICLE SNIPPET: “‘We still believe that approximately 200 people are trapped inside’ the Trident/Oberoi in the south of the city, vice chairman of the Oberoi Group of hotels S.S. Mukherji told India’s NDTV channel in an interview.
Police said they had shot dead four gunmen and arrested nine suspects. They said 12 policemen were killed, including Hemant Karkare, the chief of the police anti-terrorist squad in Mumbai.
‘We have shot dead four terrorists and managed to arrest nine suspected terrorists,’ P.D. Ghadge, a police officer at Mumbai’s central control room, told Reuters.
A militant holed up inside Mumbai’s Oberoi Hotel told India TV on Thursday that seven attackers were holding hostages inside the luxury establishment.
‘There are seven of us inside hotel Oberoi,’ the man identified as Sahadullah told India TV.
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‘We want all Mujahideens held in India released and only after that we will release the people.’
‘Release all the Mujahideens, and Muslims living in India should not be troubled,’ he said.
Small groups of militants armed with automatic weapons and grenades burst into luxury hotels, a hospital and a railway station.”
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,458270,00.html
“URGENT: Indian Commando Teams in Gunfight With Terrorists Holding Hostages Inside Mumbai Hotel”
Thursday, November 27, 2008
UPDATED @ 9:35 a.m. EST —
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UPDATE - QUOTE:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/125_dead_327_injured_in_Mumbai_attacks_MHA/articleshow/3766520.cms
125 dead, 327 injured in Mumbai attacks: MHA
27 Nov 2008, 2157 hrs IST, PTI
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NEW DELHI: As many as 125 people, including 14 police personnel, have been killed in the Mumbai terror attacks, the Union Home Ministry said on
Thursday night.
Quoting latest figures received from Mumbai, the Ministry said the dead also included six foreigners and one homeguard jawan. The remaining 104 were public.
The Ministry said 327 people were injured: 26 policemen, 294 Indians and 7 foreigners.