INDIA: More bodies recovered from Taj Hotel in Mumbai as Interior Minister Shivraj Patil submits his resignation
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INDIA: More bodies recovered from Taj Hotel in Mumbai as Interior Minister Shivraj Patil submits his resignation
- Title: INDIA: More bodies recovered from Taj Hotel in Mumbai as Interior Minister Shivraj Patil submits his resignation
- Date: 30th November 2008
- Summary: Duration00:01:12 CopyrightANI (India) Clip RestrictionsNONE MUMBAI (NOVEMBER 29, 2008) (ANI - NO ACCESS INDIA) EXTERIOR OF HOTEL WITH FIREMEN EXTINGUISHING FLAMES SECURITY PERSONNEL SEARCHING INSIDE HOTEL LOBBY SECURITY PERSONNEL AND FIREMEN STANDING IN HOTEL HALLWAY SECURITY PERSONNEL TAKING POSITIONS INSIDE HALLWAY Details Indian commando operation find 23 more bodies, including one attacker, in Mumbai's Taj Mahal Hotel, just hours before Interior Minister Shivraj Patil submits his letter of resignation. India's Interior Minister submitted his resignation on Sunday (November 30) as Mumbai mopped up the streets where Islamist gunmen rampaged and killed nearly 200 people over three days. Elite Black Cat commandos killed the last of the gunmen on Saturday (November 29) after three days of room-to-room battling inside the Taj Mahal hotel, one of several landmarks struck in co-ordinated attacks on Wednesday night (November 26). The three-day rampage and siege in Mumbai turned India's financial and entertainment hub into a televised war zone. National Security Guard (NSG) commandos also found the bodies of 22 guests at the hotel on Saturday. Hundreds of people, many of them Westerners, were trapped or taken hostage as the gunmen hurled grenades and fired indiscriminately. At least 22 of those killed were foreigners, including businessmen and tourists. Nine gunmen and 20 police and soldiers were also killed. A tenth militant was caught alive. Anger at the intelligence failure and delayed response to the attacks on two of the best-known luxury hotels and other landmarks in India's financial capital prompted federal Home Minister Shivraj Patil to submit his resignation. Speaking in New Delhi shortly after the attacks on Wednesday, Patil told the media his ministry was in constant touch with state authorities for updates. Newspaper editorials and commentaries have blasted politicians for failing to prevent the attacks and for taking advantage of its fallout before elections in Delhi on Saturday and national polls due by May. Indian officials have said most, perhaps all, of the 10 Islamist attackers who held Mumbai hostage with frenzied attacks using assault rifles and grenades, came from Pakistan, a Muslim state carved out of Hindu-majority India in 1947.
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