Mumbai: One Year Later
On Wednesday, November 26, 2008, 10 heavily armed Islamist militants targeted luxury hotels, tourist locations, hospitals, a Jewish organization, and the city's largest train station in a series of coordinated attacks across India's financial and commercial capital of Mumbai, killed over 200 people. In this news broadcast screen shot, police officers convene at the scene of a restaurant attack near the Taj Hotel. In this news segment, A.N. Roy, police commissioner of Maharashtra state, of which Mumbai is the capital, reported that several people had been wounded in the attacks and that police were battling the gunmen. "The terrorists have used automatic weapons and in some places grenades have been lobbed," said Roy. The intentions of the attacks were not initially clear.
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