By Vipin Nair, Chitra Somayaji and Anil Varma
Nov. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Hostages taken at a Jewish center during attacks across Mumbai two days ago were killed, while commandos freed more than 200 people from the Indian city’s Oberoi-Trident hotel complex, officials said.
“There were two gunmen and five hostages” lying dead in Nariman House, site of the Chabad-Lubavitch Center, Motti Bukchin, a spokesman for the Israeli emergency response organization Zaka, said today in a telephone interview from Jerusalem.
Three bodies were found on one floor and more on another level of the Jewish center’s building, J.K. Dutt, director general of the National Security Guard commando unit, said in an interview with Times Now television. An American man and his teenage daughter died when a cafe was attacked during the assault on the city.
At least 124 people were killed and 370 were injured in almost 48 hours of violence as terrorists moved through India’s financial hub, targeting the Oberoi-Trident and Taj Mahal Palace and Tower hotels and several other locations.
A little-known Islamist group, the Deccan Mujahedeen, claimed responsibility for the coordinated shootings and explosions across the western coastal city, Home Ministry official M.L. Kumawat said. Elements in neighboring Pakistan are responsible for the attacks, the Press Trust of Indian cited External Affairs Minister
Pranab Mukherjee as saying.
couldn't post. What I always find odd about the RW is the pedantic and minutiae items that find their way here when larger issues are at play.
