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english.aljazeera.net

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2008
00:27 MECCA TIME, 21:27 GMT

english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2008/11/2008112617472965818.html

“Deaths in Mumbai ‘terror’ attacks”

PHOTO CAPTION: “A policeman supports an elderly man after assailants opened fire at a Mumbai railway station [Reuters]”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “At least 80 people are reported to have been killed and 250 wounded in a series of gun and grenade attacks across the Indian city of Mumbai.”

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‘Westerners held hostage’

Hemant Karkare, the chief of the police anti-terrorist squad in the city, was killed during the attacks, Indian television channels reported.

Three members of staff were shot dead at the luxury Taj Mahal hotel in Colaba district, the Press Trust of India reported.

Westerners were also being held by armed men at the venue, according to media reports.

“They wanted anyone with British or American passports,” one witness at the hotel told the NDTV Indian news channel. “They wanted foreigners.”

Kashif Khusro, a journalist for the Times Now newspaper, told Al Jazeera hostages were being held at the city’s Trident hotel.

He said: “Army commanders have surrounded the luxury hotel - there are three hostages inside.

“Three of the gunmen have been shot. The gunmen inside are armed with automatic weapons.”

Another three people died in a bomb blast in a taxi in the south east of the city.”