FILE: File footage ahead of the fifth anniversary of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, which left 166 people dead

Record ID: 354056

  • Title: FILE: File footage ahead of the fifth anniversary of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, which left 166 people dead
  • Date: 24th November 2013
  • Summary: MUMBAI, INDIA (FILE - NOVEMBER 29, 2008) (REUTERS) FLAMES AND SMOKE INSIDE HOTEL FLAMES FIRE-ENGINE DRIVING UP FIREMEN SPRAYING WATER AT HOTEL SMOKE BILLOWING OUT OF HOTEL SECURITY WITH GUN STANDING IN FRONT OF BUS SECURITY OFFICIAL INSIDE BUS FLAMES INSIDE HOTEL SMOKE RISING OUT OF HOTEL WINDOWS SNIPERS CROUCHING SMOKE RISING OUT OF HOTEL
  • Embargoed: 9th December 2013 12:00
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  • Location: India
  • Country: India
  • Topics: Crime,General,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA8QP4TMSNY4OK1Y7A52EPJGOJF
  • Story Text: On November 26, 2008, a group of militants attacked India's financial capital of Mumbai targeting key landmarks in the city which left 166 people dead.
    The ten militants arrived on Mumbai's shoreline in a dinghy, before splitting into four groups and embarking on a killing spree.
    During the attacks a fire broke out at Mumbai's Taj Mahal hotel as Indian commandos made the last push to clear the hotel of militants.
    The militants held off elite commandos for up to 60 hours in two luxury hotels and a Jewish centre. At the end of the commando operations, Ajmal Kasab was arrested while the other nine gunmen were killed.
    Pakistan national Mohammad Ajmal Kasab was the enduring image of the bloody assault, which traumatised India and raised fears of copycat attacks on foreign cities. Pictures of the boyish gunman wearing a black T-shirt and toting an AK-47 rifle as he strode through Mumbai's train station were published around the world Kasab was executed on the morning of November 21, 2012 amid great secrecy, underscoring the political sensitivity of the 2008 massacre.
    Kasab was charged with 86 offences, including murder and waging war against the Indian state, in a charge-sheet running to more than 11,000 pages.
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