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...They shot up the place with AK-47s. There are bullet holes in the walls...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett | Title: A New Coming of Age | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...trying to talk about other things, like basketball, to get their minds off the gunfights outside.Singh said that the terrorists were throwing grenades indiscriminately in the street and that any lit building could have drawn fire.Singh said these attacks were particularly frightening because the gunmen were running around with AK-47s and were not suicide bombers.The terrorists were dressed in “western casuals,” Singh said, which made him and his friends even more wary and determined to stay inside, because they were worried about being wrongfully targeted. “We didn?...

Author: By Laura G. Mirviss, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Undergraduate Witnesses Mumbai Attacks | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...right takes you into a narrow lane, which leads directly to the back entrance of the Taj. Several people in the Apna Bidi shop, around the corner from the Leopold, reported that at about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, immediately after the blasts, they saw two of the attackers with AK-47s running from the Leopold into the narrow lane that leads to the Taj. Either the terrorists were natives to the city or they had time to practice, prepare and carefully plot their targets and the path they would take between them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Taj: Tracking Down the Terrorists | 11/28/2008 | See Source »

...scale and sophistication of the attacks, which began at about 9:30 p.m. local time on Wednesday as gunmen stormed hotels with AK-47s and grenades, became clear on Thursday and Friday: over 155 people are reported dead, and more than 300 are injured. The injured were brought to local hospitals from the sites of the attacks, which included the Taj and another luxury hotel, the main railway terminus, a caf? and two hospitals. Among the police, 14 were killed and 25 injured. The Maharashtra chief minister, Vilasrao Deshmukh, estimates that there were 20 to 25 terrorists involved, seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Taj: Tracking Down the Terrorists | 11/28/2008 | See Source »

...British national, a man in his 30s, who was having dinner inside the Oberoi Hotel, one of the city's poshest, told the Times Now television station that two young men - in jeans and T shirts - came in brandishing AK-47s and rifles, singled out those carrying British and American passports and ordered them to the roof. "We went on the 18th floor, it became very smoky, we escaped. Just two of us," said the British man, who was not identified. As of 2 a.m. local time, several of the hostages were still being held, with dozens of Indian commandos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism Strikes in Mumbai | 11/27/2008 | See Source »

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