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Tycoon’s Last Phone Call

Tragic

Multimillionaire calls BBC before being killed.

Andreas Liveras, 73, went to the Taj for dinner and a drink, but found himself caught up in the terror. The British-Cypriot owner of a yacht company, who had a fortune of about £315 million ($400 million), phoned the BBC when trapped in a room in the Taj Mahal as outside terrorists fired AK47 rifles and exploded grenades. “The hotel is shaking every time a bomb goes off,” he told them. “Everybody is just living on their nerves.” Then the phone call ceased. When Liveras’s body was found, he had been shot multiple times.

Read it at The London Times