INDIA/FILE: Trident-Oberoi Hotel in India's Mumbai city, a target of November 2008 bomb attacks all set to reopen

Record ID: 352762

  • Title: INDIA/FILE: Trident-Oberoi Hotel in India's Mumbai city, a target of November 2008 bomb attacks all set to reopen
  • Date: 23rd April 2010
  • Summary: FILE (REUTERS) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) VARIOUS OF TRIDENT-OBEROI HOTEL ON THE NIGHT OF THE ATTACK BY THE TERRORISTS FIGURES SEEN FROM THE WINDOWS OF THE HOTEL ROOMS
  • Embargoed: 8th May 2010 13:00
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  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
  • Reuters ID: LVA4REZ4FHB4YMNNE1HU45ORJNOW
  • Story Text: The tower block of the Trident-Oberoi Hotel in Mumbai, one of the targets of the November 26, 2008 attacks in India's financial capital was opened to journalists after a 40-million dollar renovation on Wednesday (April 21).
    The 550-room Trident, which brings in nearly a quarter of annual revenue of the Oberoi-owned East India Hotel Limited (EHL), was a favourite of foreign business executives because of its location in the business district and sweeping view of the Arabian Sea.
    Twenty-two guests and 10 staff members were killed in the siege that was laid by Islamist gunmen at this luxury hotel.
    Seventeen months after the attack, the Oberoi Group's super star-rated hotel is all set to reopened on April 24 with a tighter security cover.
    According to the management, the hotel has been completely transformed to offer the highest standards of facilities.
    The new hotel will now have 287 guest rooms. The suites have been increased to 73 from 22 including two presidential suites.
    Built in 1986, Oberoi has played host to famous guests including former US president Bill Clinton and pop star Michael Jackson.
    Ten gunmen landed on Mumbai shores by boats at sunset on November 26, 2008, and fired indiscriminately at a busy railway station, the Chabad House, a restaurant and two luxury hotels.
    Several people were held hostage over the next three days and over 166 people were killed before NSG (National Security Guards) commandos smoked out the last of the terrorists on November 28, 2008.
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