TERROR NON-STOP: 78 killed in Mumbai attacks
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Published on Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 22:39, Updated on Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 02:38 in Nation section
Tags: Mumbai Shootouts, Terror Attack
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MUMBAI'S TERROR: A photo of a suspected terrorist (R) and Mumbai police on alert.
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Mumbai: Terror struck the country's financial capital late on Wednesday night as coordinated serial explosions and indiscriminate firing were reported from at least eight locations across Mumbai.
At least 78 people - including the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad chief Hemant Karkare - are reported killed and 190 people are injured.
The coordinated terror strike which reportedly began at 2233 hrs IST at Chhatrapathi Shivaji Terminus(CST), formerly known as the Victoria Terminus(VT), killed 10 people in the premises of the station, police say.
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A petrol pump has been blown up in Colaba by armed men and at least 10 people are reported to have been killed in that strike.
Three persons are killed in a bomb explosion in a taxi on Mazegaon dockyard road and an equal number have been gunned down at the five-star Taj Hotel.
The victims in the hotel were its employees.
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The five-star Hotel Oberoi is also under siege and gunmen are reported to have held the occupants hostage.
The shooting at the hotels was reported between 2215 hrs IST and 2230 hrs IST when bullets, apparently from automatic weapons, were fired at police and paramilitary forces outside the Taj Hotel.
An eyewitness said two young men dressed in jeans barged into a restaurant in Hotel Oberoi and asked for American and British passport holders.
Reports say 10 gunmen are holed up inside Hotel Oberoi and Army has arrived to flush out terrorists.. The hotel lobby is reportedly on fire.
A loud blast has also been heard from the terrace of the Taj hotel. Firing has also been reported near the Maharashtra state Assembly building in south Mumbai.
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