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WASHINGTON: Two US citizens, Alan and Naomi Scherr of Virginia, were killed in the attacks on sites around Mumbai, their spiritual center announced Frid...
Friday, November 28, 2008
17 foreigners killed in Mumbai attacks
NEW DELHI: At least 17 foreigners died in the militant attacks in Mumbai, according to announcements by officials in India and in the victims' home countries."Three of those killed were Germans, one Japanese national, one Canadian and one Australian," India's Internal Security Secretary M. L. Kumawat said on Friday.Kumawat said the information was based on reports from commandos who fought gunmen in two Mumbai hotels and a Jewish cultural centre.The bodies of five Israeli hostages were also recovered later Friday from the Jewish centre after it was stormed by Indian troops, an Israeli diplomat said.The US State Department in Washington said two...
Pakistan to send ISI chief to India
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Friday extended Pakistan’s support to India in jointly combating extremism and terrorism and offered to send its intelligence chief to help with Mumbai investigation. Prime Minister Gilani telephoned his Indian counterpart Dr. Manmohan Singh and strongly condemned the acts of terrorism in Mumbai.The Prime Minister expressed sympathy on behalf of the people and government of Pakistan with Indian Prime Minister, Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, people of India and the families of those who lost their near and dear ones in “the unfortunate incidents of barbarism.”Gilani termed the incident “inhuman...
Mumbai militants showed no remorse: commando
MUMBAI: An Indian marine commando who battled militants room to room in a Mumbai hotel said on Friday the guerrillas showed no remorse and fired at anyone who moved."They were the kind of people with no remorse -- anybody and whomsoever came in front of them they fired," the black-clad masked commando, who belonged to India's crack Marine Commando Force known as MARCOS, told reporters."We could have got those terrorists but for so many hotel guests," he said in Mumbai. "The bodies were lying strewn here and there. There was blood all over and in trying to avoid the casualty of those civilians, we had to be that much more careful," he sa...
