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<blockquote data-quote="kds1980" data-source="post: 90030" data-attributes="member: 1178"><p><strong><a href="http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/nov/26-update-terror-in-mumbai.htm" target="_blank">All terrorists in Taj Mahal Hotel killed</a></strong></p><p><strong>All terrorists in Taj Mahal Hotel killed</strong></p><p>November 26, 2008 22:40 IST</p><p><strong>Last Updated: </strong>November 27, 2008 23:29 IST</p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>11: 37 PM:</strong> Military sources say that all terrorists holed up inside the Taj Hotel have been killed by the National Security Guards and Army personnel.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Residents staying in buildings near the Nariman House have been asked to evacuate. Some members of the local Shiv Sena unit have also reached the spot. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>10:55 PM:</strong> Two Pakistani merchant vessels have been apprehended off the Gujarat coast, say Home Ministry sources.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Security personnel and terrorists have reportedly started exchanging gunfire at the Nariman House.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">NSG personnel have taken positions outside Hotel Trident in Nariman Point, on the road between NCPA and the hotel. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">An army truck with over 20 commandos has stationed itself near Hotel Trident.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Low-intensity gunshots can also be heard from inside the hotel.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Prime Minister Manmohan Singh <span style="color: #757577"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">[</span></span><a href="http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=manmohan%20singh" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">Images</span></a><span style="color: #757577"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">]</span></span> has rushed to Mumbai and is visiting the injured victims at JJ Hospital.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>10:24 PM:</strong> The death toll in the Mumbai terror attacks has reportedly crossed 125. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Another explosion has taken place in the first floor of the old building of the Taj Hotel and several rounds of gunfire have been heard. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Columns of Army personnel are marching into Hotel Trident.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Military personnel have taken positions around the hotel</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>09:42 PM:</strong> Firing has started again at Trident Hotel, after a lull of 30 minutes. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">A senior official from the Israeli Consulate has arrived at the Nariman House, where two Israeli families are being held hostage. However, he refuses to divulge much information about the hostage situation.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The authorities say that the situation at Nariman House will be tackled only after the hostage crises in Hotel Trident and Taj Hotel come under control.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>09:10 PM:</strong> Five more foreigners have been evacuated from Hotel Trident.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The operation at Hotel Taj is reportedly over. All terrorists at Taj Hotel have been killed by the security personnel. The situation is under control</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">At Nariman House, commandos have started entering the building as the offensive against the terrorists escalates.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>08:30 PM:</strong> Vicky Nanjappa reports from the Taj Hotel that massive explosions are taking place inside the hotel.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">A major fire has broken out at the Trident Hotel. The 13th and 14th floors of the hotel are on fire. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has left for Mumbai, in the wake of the terror attack.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The ongoing operations against terrorists in three places were in their final stages and would be over soon, says Maharashtra Director General of Police A N Roy.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Major General R K Hooda, General Officer Commanding, Maharashtra area, said that the Army and other security agencies had completed the first round of room-to-room combing at the Taj Mahal Hotel <span style="color: #757577"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">[</span></span><a href="http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=taj%20mahal%20hotel" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">Images</span></a><span style="color: #757577"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">]</span></span>. But he said the operation was not yet over and there may still be terrorists holed up inside the hotel.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">A huge convoy of army trucks has reached Nariman House. A BEST van can also be seen in the vicinity, and it might be there to cut off the power supply to the building. Two Israeli families have been reportedly held hostage in Nariman House.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>08:00 PM:</strong> The Taj Hotel's General Manager's wife and three children have been reportedly killed in the attack. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The locals are distributing biscuits to the security personnel deployed at the Nariman House. An ambulance, from Saifee Hospital, is distributing water.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The chief of the Special Action Group has arrived. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>07:49 PM:</strong> This road in the heart of Mumbai's tourist district looks worse than a scene from Kashmir. The range of forces here is incredible. The deployed personnel are from the NSG, RAF and Black Cats, apart from the city's police. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The city hadn't witnessed such a tight security blanket even during the infamous Mumbai riots. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Major General Hooda has reached Nariman point.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>06:07 PM:</strong> 70 more people have been evacuated from Trident. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>05:57 PM:</strong> Railway Additional DGP K P Raghuvanshi has been given temporary charge of ATS following Hemant Karkare's <span style="color: #757577"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">[</span></span><a href="http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=hemant%20karkare" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">Images</span></a><span style="color: #757577"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">]</span></span> killing in Mumbai terror attacks, says Deputy Chief Minister R R Patil.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>05:45 PM:</strong> Lashkar-e-Tayiba has denied involvement in the terrorist attacks in Mumbai. Death toll in Mumbai terror attacks 101; 288 injured, six of them critically, says Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>05:31 PM:</strong> Commandos are in NCPA apartments across the road from Trident hotel, and firing at the terrorists, police officers said.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>05: 26 PM:</strong> Gunshots have been heard from inside Oberoi hotel where terrorists are holding around 35 people hostage. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>05:08 PM:</strong> IAF keeps seven transport aircraft and one VVIP aircraft on standby in Delhi <span style="color: #757577"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">[</span></span><a href="http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=delhi" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">Images</span></a><span style="color: #757577"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">]</span></span> for airlifting troops and leaders at short notice. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>05:05 PM:</strong> Grenade sound could be heard from Nariman House building. The residents of Prem Bhavan, next door, have moved out. Nariman House area wears a deserted look.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>04:55 PM:</strong> About 18 to 20 rounds of gunfire has been reported from Trident Hotel.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>04:45 PM:</strong> Lot more commandos have arrived outside Nariman House. A team of commandos is scaling the building. Helicopters overhead are providing cover.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>04:25 PM:</strong> Loud explosion has been heard outside Taj Hotel.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>03:54 PM:</strong> Third grenade blast has been reported from the Trident Hotel (Oberoi).</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>03:15 PM:</strong> Two grenade blasts have been heard from Trident hotel. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>02:54 PM:</strong> Grenade blast has been reported from Nariman House in south Mumbai, where six terrorists are holed up. One terrorist had been gunned down earlier. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>02:33 PM:</strong> Navy helicopters are chasing a Vietnamese registered ship, <em>MV Alpha</em>, which is believed to have dropped terrorists near Bombay. Navy Chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta is closely monitoring the situation.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>02:10 PM: </strong>Our correspondent Krishnakumar K reports that the first 4 floors of the six-storeyed Taj Hotel have been sanitised. Forty bodies have been recovered so far. NSG sources add that four fidayeen (suicide bombers) have been killed in the final assault.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>01:50 PM: </strong>Director General of Police A N Roy says all people trapped inside Taj Hotel have been rescued and the hostage situation is over. "No negotiations with the terrorists. Either we will kill them or nab them alive," says Roy. Meanwhile, an National Security Guard spokesman says 200 more NSG commandos were being rushed to Mumbai.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>01:13 PM:</strong> Trident Hotel (formerly Oberoi), has said that it is under the control of police and security forces, and they are monitoring the situation in wake of the terrorist strike.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>01:23 PM: </strong>Handgrenades lobbed from Oberoi Hotel in south Mumbai where terrorists are holed up. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>12:42 PM:</strong> Police say one terrorist holed up inside Nariman House has been killed. Six more terrorists are suspected to be hiding inside the building. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>12:14 PM:</strong> At least four terrorists are holed up in the Taj Hotel where 40 to 50 guests were still trapped, says Major R K Hooda, General Officer Commanding of Maharashtra, Goa <span style="color: #757577"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">[</span></span><a href="http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=goa" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">Images</span></a><span style="color: #757577"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">]</span></span> and Gujarat. Two bodies have been brought out of the Taj Hotel and taken away in an ambulance.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>11:25 AM: </strong>Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister R R Patil has said that there can be 10 to 12 terrorists involved in the terror attack inside Taj Hotel. Five of them have been killed and one of them arrested, he told media persons outside the hotel as security forces prepared to launch an assault to end the terror. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>11:09 AM:</strong> Latest reports say that the Navy and Army have taken control at Oberoi. Meanwhile, a child of foreign nationality and an Indian maid have been seen coming out of Nariman House in South Mumbai. Reports also say that US intelligence officials are among the foreigners killed at Taj Hotel. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>10:57 AM: </strong>Fire brigade personnel have started rescuing people from Taj Hotel. Top French Nuclear physicist has also been rescued from the hotel.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>10:40 AM: </strong>Smoke has been seen billowing from the new building of the Taj Hotel -- which stands next to the old building where terrorists are holed up. While NSG operation was on in the old building, fire brigade personnel were trying to douse fire in the new wing.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>10:30 AM: </strong>The number of policemen killed has gone up to 16. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will address the nation after 7 PM after the Cabinet meeting. The Maharashtra state Cabinet will meet at 2 PM.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>09:30 AM:</strong> Terrorist out in the open! A terrorist holed up inside Nariman House jumps to the adjacent building. Meanwhile, an emergency Cabinet meeting has been called at 1100 hours.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>09:27 AM: </strong>IB has arrested a Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorist of Pakistani origin from Mumbai. The e-mail sent after terror attacks has been traced to Russia <span style="color: #757577"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">[</span></span><a href="http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=russia" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">Images</span></a><span style="color: #757577"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">]</span></span>. Authorities say the mail was sent by Lashkar operatives. They also believe that the Lashkar terrorists came directly from Karachi to Mumbai.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>09:30 AM:</strong> Firing has been heard near Nariman House in Colaba. Police have cordoned off the area amid reports that terrorists are holed up in the building. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>09:09 AM: </strong>Curfew has been clamped in Colaba after firing intensified in the Taj hotel. Police are using smoke cannisters to disable terrorists' vision. Meanwhile, Hostages are being evacuated from the Taj hotel even as gunbattle rages. A journalist has been injured in the firing. All international flights from Mumbai have been cancelled.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>08:55 AM:</strong> Agencies have reported that terrorists are holed up inside the Cama Hospital. Commandoes have started firing at terrorists.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>08:05 AM:</strong> Fresh firing erupted early on Thursday in Taj hotel as commandos moved in to flush out terrorists holding some foreigners hostage.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Sharp shooters of army, NSG and other security forces moved into Mumbai's landmark hotel. Police believe that the number of holed out terrorists could be three or four.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Another luxury hotel Trident (formerly Oberoi) was under siege with some terrorists holding some foreigners hostage.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>07:50 AM:</strong> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">More grim news is coming in from Taj Hotel, where several staff members have been feared killed in the terrorist attack.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Over 100 guests are still stuck inside the hotel, where two terrorists are reportedly holed up.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">At Nariman House in Colaba, onlookers informed that the police exchanged fire about an hour ago.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The place looked like a riot-hit site, swarming with police officials and military trucks. Most people have been holed up here since an explosion shook the area at 10.30 pm.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The explosion occurred when the terrorists lobbed hand grenades at the local petrol pump. The blast was followed by a gunfight between police forces and the terrorists.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>06:20 AM:</strong> The hostage crisis continued at Taj Hotel in the wee hours of Thursday as Army commandos moved in to flush out the terrorists.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Meanwhile, Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh assured that there was no hostage situation at Cama Hospital in South Mumbai.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">An Army commando was reportedly injured in the shoot-out. An explosion was also reported in the lobby of the Taj Hotel</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>04:23 AM:</strong> Vaihayasi Pande-Daniel reports that the fire that engulfed the old wing of the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai has been put out. Though the major conflagration has been contained, flames continue to flicker, occasionally leaping into life, at the corner of the heritage wing. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Police and fire brigade personnel have placed ladders against the side of the building, and are bringing hotel guests out through that means. Some foreigners who had been evacuated were being ferried to a nearby hospital for first aid, while others are being taken by bus to alternate accommodations. Officials here estimate that most of the guests inside the hotel have been evacuated. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Commandos of the Indian navy meanwhile have staked out vantage points covering all exit points, while others of their number prowl around the perimeter of the hotel. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">A group of Taj employees stood clustered on the pavement opposite the hotel, staring at the hotel through tear-filled eyes. They had been told to leave, they said � but clearly, they could not bring themselves to walk away from a hotel that, to them and to most Mumbaikars, is shared heritage than mere hotel. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Elsewhere, an attractive young woman attempted to restore some semblance of order to her silver-zari sari. She was drenched, and still disoriented from her experiences of the night. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"We were partying, and suddenly there was firing all over," the woman, who had just been evacuated by ladder from a window some 30 feet up, recalled. "I'd read about such things in the paper, and routinely turned the page� but when it happens to you, when you experience it�"</span></span> </p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>03:57 AM:</strong> Though the firefight at the Oberoi is still far from finished, the takeover of the operation by units of the Indian Army <span style="color: #757577"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">[</span></span><a href="http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=indian%20army" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">Images</span></a><span style="color: #757577"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">]</span></span> appears to have taken the South Mumbai hotel off the 'critical' list. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Vaihayasi Pande-Daniel reports for Rediff that most of the one dozen fire trucks that had been stationed around the Oberoi have been dispatched to the Taj Mahal Hotel, where a blazing fire threatens to devastate the old wing of the iconic hotel. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Daniel cites police sources as saying the army commandoes are doing a systematic sweep of the hotel, lobbing grenades ahead of them to take out hidden dangers before securing each successive wing of the hotel. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The constant bang of grenades from within the hotel continues to alarm the crowds gathered outside the hotel, and kept at a distance by police. Not all of them have come to gape, however. Vadhavan, a businessman from New Delhi, sits in rumpled attire on the parapet of Marine Drive <span style="color: #757577"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">[</span></span><a href="http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=marine%20drive" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">Images</span></a><span style="color: #757577"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">]</span></span>, trying to stay awake. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">He had arrived in Mumbai this evening at the head of a 13-member business delegation. He was in the act of checking into the Oberoi when the firing began. "I think the shooting started at the Oberoi," says Vadhavan. "They ushered us all out through a side entrance and told us to leave. I got separated from the rest of my group; I think they are waiting on the other side of the hotel." </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The flushing out operation is far from finished; Vadhavan's wait threatens to extend through what remains of this night. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>3:42 AM:</strong> At the Taj Hotel, where a joint operation involving the Mumbai police, the Central Reserve Police Force and a commando group from the Navy is engaged in flushing out terrorists within the premises, PTI reports that almost all the guests have been brought out to safety at the time of writing this. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The situation continues to remain dangerous, however, with an indeterminate number of terrorists within the hotel, two of whom are believed to be holding a group of tourists hostage on an upper floor. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Meanwhile, the fire that erupted in the old wing of the historic hotel has spread alarmingly. The fire now burns bright across at least two mid-level floors of the old wing, and thick clouds of black smoke spew from the signature minaret that crowns the hotel's roof. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>03: 06 AM:</strong> A little over four hours since gunshots first erupted at the CST railway terminal, and coordinated terrorist attacks spread to various parts of South Bombay, the situation remains fluid. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">At the Taj Mahal Hotel, a contingent of Navy commandos has joined the police and Central Reserve Police Force personnel attempting to enter the hotel and flush out the terrorists. From within the hotel, word is that occasional explosions, and sporadic gunfire, continue at the time of writing this. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">At the Oberoi Hotel, the army has taken over the operation and entered the hotel; it is now reportedly engaged in flushing out the terrorists hiding within. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">At the Cama Hospital, a specialty medical center for women and children, official sources say terrorists are holed up on the fourth floor and have been firing from that vantage point. Police have surrounded the hospital and are engaging the terrorists in an ongoing gun battle. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>02:50 AM:</strong> Communist Party of India-Marxist leader and Member of Parliament N N Krishnadas, who is staying at the Taj Mahal Hotel, reports that as late as 2:10 AM, explosions could be heard from within the premises. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Krishnadas told CNN that he is holed up in a room, and outside of the noise of explosions and gunfire has no real idea what is happening within the premises. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Meanwhile, the fire that broke out in one of the hotel's middle floors has been spreading upwards, adding a fresh hazard both to the police and CRPF personnel engaged in the anti-terrorist operation and to the guests within the hotel. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Even as police sources upped the toll in today's terrorist strikes in Mumbai at 80 and counting, police continue to lay siege to the Taj Mahal Hotel, where two terrorists are believed to be holding at least 15 guests hostage on one of the upper floors of the hotel. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The police are at this point in time unsure whether the two hostage takers are the only terrorists within the hotel. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Meanwhile, the Indian Army has moved into the Oberoi and the Trident, the two other South Mumbai hotels targeted in today's terrorist strikes. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">A</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"> battalion of the Indian army entered the Oberoi and began an operation against the terrorists holed up inside. The army was called in after the police took several casualties, including the deaths of some senior officers. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">With the army now in charge of this phase of the operation � the first time the Indian army is operating in the city since the 1992 riots � the police has fallen back and is focusing on cordoning off the area. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Vaihayasi Pande-Daniel, reporting for Rediff.com from outside the Oberoi Hotel, reports that with the cordon being drawn tight, people waiting outside are in a state of panic, and desperately searching for information. A group of senior bankers from Hyderabad are among those inside the hotel to attend a conference; their Mumbai-based colleagues are outside, awaiting word of their fate.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>02: 25 AM:</strong> Mumbai's Anti-Terrorist Squad chief Hemant Karkare died of bullet wounds in the ongoing battle against armed terrorists that is raging across several parts of South Mumbai. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Vijay Salaskar, an officer attached to the Mumbai police who has been famed as an 'encounter specialist', was seriously injured in the ongoing gun battle and has been rushed to hospital. In all, seven Mumbai policemen are believed killed thus far. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Meanwhile, Railway Police Chief Ashok Sharma told Rediff.com that at least 40 people were killed inside Mumbai's nodal Chatrapathi Sivaji Terminus. "The attack started around 9.35 pm," Sharma said. "Two terrorists were inside. We can confirm at least 40 people killed." </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">It is yet unclear whether the terrorists are still on-site, have left, or been killed. Sharma said there had been no firing from within the terminus for the last two hours. "Despite this, we are not allowing people to go into the station as we are worried that the terrorists might have planted bombs or left live grenades in the station," he said. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Sharma said the official belief is that the two terrorists had sneaked out of the station in the confusion following the original assault. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Sudhir Dalvi, a sub-inspector attached to the Mumbai cell of the Anti-Terrorist Squad, told Sheela Bhatt for Rediff.com that his boss, ATS chief Hemant Karkare, and senior police officers Vijay Salaskar and Additional Commissioner of Police Ashok Kamte, were killed in an incident outside Mumbai's Cama Hospital. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"Our chief Karkare, my senior officer Salaskar and ACP Kamte died while engaging terrorists outside the Cama hospital," a sobbing Dalvi told Rediff.com. "All of a sudden, terrorists threw grenades at Karkare leading to chaos. We are unable to confirm whether they fell to terrorist fire or were killed by the grenades." </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Meanwhile, the army has moved into the Trident Hotel, the third five-star hotel in the South Mumbai region that had been targeted in tonight's coordinated terrorist strikes.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>02:10 AM: </strong>It is now believed that 15 people, at least seven of them foreigners, have been taken hostage by two terrorists and are being held on the roof of the Taj Mahal Hotel. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Rakesh Patel, a London-based businessman who managed to escape, told NDTV that the two terrorists, estimated to be in their early 20s, came to a restaurant on the ground floor of the Taj, rounded up the hostages and took them to the 18th floor. Patel, who was one among them, managed at that point to escape. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Patel said the terrorists asked if any of the hostages were carrying American or British passports, and said he got the clear impression that they wanted foreigners. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>01:50 AM:</strong> Krishnakumar reports from the Juhu region that a bomb went off in a taxi that was speeding along the Western Express Highway from Vile Parle towards Andheri, killing two people and injuring two others. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"The taxi exploded and went up in flames as it sped past the traffic island under the flyover at the domestic airport," an eyewitness said on phone. "The vehicle, which was up in flames soon after it crossed the traffic signal, was on the left </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">side. A bystander and a person in the taxi were killed. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Reports indicate that this was perhaps the night's highest-intensity blast. Krishnakumar reports that the taxi's doors were found a distance of 50 meters or more away, and body parts of the victims had been thrown even further. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>01:43 AM:</strong> At least two suspected terroristswere shot dead minutes earlier at the corner of Mumbai's Chowpatty. Rediff's Vaihayasi Pande-Daniel, who is on the site, reports that the area has been cordoned off and is swarming with police officers; the Skoda is under guard and a cellphone, a jacket, and items of footwear are strewn around the vehicle. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Meanwhile at the Taj Mahal Hotel, the standoff between police, who have surrounded the hotel, and terrorists who are holed up inside, continues.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">A short while ago, power went off in parts of the hotel, adding to the sense of panic and fear. Well known food critic Sabina Sahgal Saikia, who is inside the hotel, told NDTV on phone just now that the guests are terrified, and unaware of just what is happening around them. It is unclear at this point in time whether the power has been turned off by the police as they battle the terrorists. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>01:27 AM:</strong> Rediff's Vaihayasi Pande Daniel calls in from the Marine Drive region to report that the approaches to the South Mumbai area have been shut down, and that sounds of firing are audible as far away as Mumbai's famed Queen's Necklace stretch, though the source of the firing is unclear. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Meanwhile, a foreign national who managed to escape from the Taj Mahal Hotel, where a state of seige currently exists, told NDTV that armed and masked gunmen were wandering around inside the hotel, looking for people with American or British passports. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The eyewitness account appears to confirm the growing belief among law enforcement circles that this latest attack is aimed directly at foreign nationals -- hence the choice of star hotels as prime targets. They further theorize that automatic weapons are being used rather than bombs in order to orchestrate such targeted mayhem. </span></span></p><p>Meanwhile, the real dangers of the situation are being exaggerated by a proliferation of rumors. One such that has been aired on a few channels including CNN suggested that firing was taking place at the JW Marriott, another five star hotel in the Juhu region of suburban Mumbai. A source in the hotel however confirmed to Rediff just now that there was no alarm at the hotel, and no incident of any kind had taken place.</p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>12:44 AM:</strong> A gun battle is ongoing in the Taj Hotel in Colaba. Within the last ten minutes, a guest at the hotel got word out to CNN via email that a grenade had exploded within the hotel premises just then. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Additional Commissioner of Police AN Roy and other officials confirmed that some armed terrorists are holed up in the iconic hotel. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Police officials said they have no information of a hostage situation; they say guests have been sequestered in safe areas of the hotel, and the police are now engaged in flushing out the terrorists from their hiding place.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>Reportage by: Vaihayasi Daniel, Krishnakumar, Prasanna Zore, Syed Firdaus Ashraf, Uttam Ghosh, Sanjay Sawant, Satish Bodas.</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>Additional reportage: PTI/UNI</strong></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kds1980, post: 90030, member: 1178"] [B][URL="http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/nov/26-update-terror-in-mumbai.htm"]All terrorists in Taj Mahal Hotel killed[/URL] All terrorists in Taj Mahal Hotel killed[/B] November 26, 2008 22:40 IST [B]Last Updated: [/B]November 27, 2008 23:29 IST [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]11: 37 PM:[/B] Military sources say that all terrorists holed up inside the Taj Hotel have been killed by the National Security Guards and Army personnel.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Residents staying in buildings near the Nariman House have been asked to evacuate. Some members of the local Shiv Sena unit have also reached the spot. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]10:55 PM:[/B] Two Pakistani merchant vessels have been apprehended off the Gujarat coast, say Home Ministry sources.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Security personnel and terrorists have reportedly started exchanging gunfire at the Nariman House.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]NSG personnel have taken positions outside Hotel Trident in Nariman Point, on the road between NCPA and the hotel. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]An army truck with over 20 commandos has stationed itself near Hotel Trident.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Low-intensity gunshots can also be heard from inside the hotel.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Prime Minister Manmohan Singh [COLOR=#757577][FONT=verdana][[/FONT][/COLOR][URL="http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=manmohan%20singh"][FONT=verdana]Images[/FONT][/URL][COLOR=#757577][FONT=verdana]][/FONT][/COLOR] has rushed to Mumbai and is visiting the injured victims at JJ Hospital.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]10:24 PM:[/B] The death toll in the Mumbai terror attacks has reportedly crossed 125. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Another explosion has taken place in the first floor of the old building of the Taj Hotel and several rounds of gunfire have been heard. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Columns of Army personnel are marching into Hotel Trident.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Military personnel have taken positions around the hotel[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]09:42 PM:[/B] Firing has started again at Trident Hotel, after a lull of 30 minutes. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]A senior official from the Israeli Consulate has arrived at the Nariman House, where two Israeli families are being held hostage. However, he refuses to divulge much information about the hostage situation.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]The authorities say that the situation at Nariman House will be tackled only after the hostage crises in Hotel Trident and Taj Hotel come under control.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]09:10 PM:[/B] Five more foreigners have been evacuated from Hotel Trident.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]The operation at Hotel Taj is reportedly over. All terrorists at Taj Hotel have been killed by the security personnel. The situation is under control[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]At Nariman House, commandos have started entering the building as the offensive against the terrorists escalates.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]08:30 PM:[/B] Vicky Nanjappa reports from the Taj Hotel that massive explosions are taking place inside the hotel.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]A major fire has broken out at the Trident Hotel. The 13th and 14th floors of the hotel are on fire. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has left for Mumbai, in the wake of the terror attack.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]The ongoing operations against terrorists in three places were in their final stages and would be over soon, says Maharashtra Director General of Police A N Roy.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Major General R K Hooda, General Officer Commanding, Maharashtra area, said that the Army and other security agencies had completed the first round of room-to-room combing at the Taj Mahal Hotel [COLOR=#757577][FONT=verdana][[/FONT][/COLOR][URL="http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=taj%20mahal%20hotel"][FONT=verdana]Images[/FONT][/URL][COLOR=#757577][FONT=verdana]][/FONT][/COLOR]. But he said the operation was not yet over and there may still be terrorists holed up inside the hotel.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]A huge convoy of army trucks has reached Nariman House. A BEST van can also be seen in the vicinity, and it might be there to cut off the power supply to the building. Two Israeli families have been reportedly held hostage in Nariman House.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]08:00 PM:[/B] The Taj Hotel's General Manager's wife and three children have been reportedly killed in the attack. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]The locals are distributing biscuits to the security personnel deployed at the Nariman House. An ambulance, from Saifee Hospital, is distributing water.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]The chief of the Special Action Group has arrived. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]07:49 PM:[/B] This road in the heart of Mumbai's tourist district looks worse than a scene from Kashmir. The range of forces here is incredible. The deployed personnel are from the NSG, RAF and Black Cats, apart from the city's police. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]The city hadn't witnessed such a tight security blanket even during the infamous Mumbai riots. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Major General Hooda has reached Nariman point.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]06:07 PM:[/B] 70 more people have been evacuated from Trident. [B]05:57 PM:[/B] Railway Additional DGP K P Raghuvanshi has been given temporary charge of ATS following Hemant Karkare's [COLOR=#757577][FONT=verdana][[/FONT][/COLOR][URL="http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=hemant%20karkare"][FONT=verdana]Images[/FONT][/URL][COLOR=#757577][FONT=verdana]][/FONT][/COLOR] killing in Mumbai terror attacks, says Deputy Chief Minister R R Patil. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]05:45 PM:[/B] Lashkar-e-Tayiba has denied involvement in the terrorist attacks in Mumbai. Death toll in Mumbai terror attacks 101; 288 injured, six of them critically, says Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh. [B]05:31 PM:[/B] Commandos are in NCPA apartments across the road from Trident hotel, and firing at the terrorists, police officers said.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]05: 26 PM:[/B] Gunshots have been heard from inside Oberoi hotel where terrorists are holding around 35 people hostage. [B]05:08 PM:[/B] IAF keeps seven transport aircraft and one VVIP aircraft on standby in Delhi [COLOR=#757577][FONT=verdana][[/FONT][/COLOR][URL="http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=delhi"][FONT=verdana]Images[/FONT][/URL][COLOR=#757577][FONT=verdana]][/FONT][/COLOR] for airlifting troops and leaders at short notice. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]05:05 PM:[/B] Grenade sound could be heard from Nariman House building. The residents of Prem Bhavan, next door, have moved out. Nariman House area wears a deserted look. [B]04:55 PM:[/B] About 18 to 20 rounds of gunfire has been reported from Trident Hotel. [B]04:45 PM:[/B] Lot more commandos have arrived outside Nariman House. A team of commandos is scaling the building. Helicopters overhead are providing cover.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]04:25 PM:[/B] Loud explosion has been heard outside Taj Hotel.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]03:54 PM:[/B] Third grenade blast has been reported from the Trident Hotel (Oberoi).[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]03:15 PM:[/B] Two grenade blasts have been heard from Trident hotel. [B]02:54 PM:[/B] Grenade blast has been reported from Nariman House in south Mumbai, where six terrorists are holed up. One terrorist had been gunned down earlier. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]02:33 PM:[/B] Navy helicopters are chasing a Vietnamese registered ship, [I]MV Alpha[/I], which is believed to have dropped terrorists near Bombay. Navy Chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta is closely monitoring the situation. [B]02:10 PM: [/B]Our correspondent Krishnakumar K reports that the first 4 floors of the six-storeyed Taj Hotel have been sanitised. Forty bodies have been recovered so far. NSG sources add that four fidayeen (suicide bombers) have been killed in the final assault.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]01:50 PM: [/B]Director General of Police A N Roy says all people trapped inside Taj Hotel have been rescued and the hostage situation is over. "No negotiations with the terrorists. Either we will kill them or nab them alive," says Roy. Meanwhile, an National Security Guard spokesman says 200 more NSG commandos were being rushed to Mumbai. [B]01:13 PM:[/B] Trident Hotel (formerly Oberoi), has said that it is under the control of police and security forces, and they are monitoring the situation in wake of the terrorist strike.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]01:23 PM: [/B]Handgrenades lobbed from Oberoi Hotel in south Mumbai where terrorists are holed up. [B]12:42 PM:[/B] Police say one terrorist holed up inside Nariman House has been killed. Six more terrorists are suspected to be hiding inside the building. [B]12:14 PM:[/B] At least four terrorists are holed up in the Taj Hotel where 40 to 50 guests were still trapped, says Major R K Hooda, General Officer Commanding of Maharashtra, Goa [COLOR=#757577][FONT=verdana][[/FONT][/COLOR][URL="http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=goa"][FONT=verdana]Images[/FONT][/URL][COLOR=#757577][FONT=verdana]][/FONT][/COLOR] and Gujarat. Two bodies have been brought out of the Taj Hotel and taken away in an ambulance.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]11:25 AM: [/B]Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister R R Patil has said that there can be 10 to 12 terrorists involved in the terror attack inside Taj Hotel. Five of them have been killed and one of them arrested, he told media persons outside the hotel as security forces prepared to launch an assault to end the terror. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]11:09 AM:[/B] Latest reports say that the Navy and Army have taken control at Oberoi. Meanwhile, a child of foreign nationality and an Indian maid have been seen coming out of Nariman House in South Mumbai. Reports also say that US intelligence officials are among the foreigners killed at Taj Hotel. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]10:57 AM: [/B]Fire brigade personnel have started rescuing people from Taj Hotel. Top French Nuclear physicist has also been rescued from the hotel.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]10:40 AM: [/B]Smoke has been seen billowing from the new building of the Taj Hotel -- which stands next to the old building where terrorists are holed up. While NSG operation was on in the old building, fire brigade personnel were trying to douse fire in the new wing. [B]10:30 AM: [/B]The number of policemen killed has gone up to 16. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will address the nation after 7 PM after the Cabinet meeting. The Maharashtra state Cabinet will meet at 2 PM. [B]09:30 AM:[/B] Terrorist out in the open! A terrorist holed up inside Nariman House jumps to the adjacent building. Meanwhile, an emergency Cabinet meeting has been called at 1100 hours.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]09:27 AM: [/B]IB has arrested a Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorist of Pakistani origin from Mumbai. The e-mail sent after terror attacks has been traced to Russia [COLOR=#757577][FONT=verdana][[/FONT][/COLOR][URL="http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=russia"][FONT=verdana]Images[/FONT][/URL][COLOR=#757577][FONT=verdana]][/FONT][/COLOR]. Authorities say the mail was sent by Lashkar operatives. They also believe that the Lashkar terrorists came directly from Karachi to Mumbai.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]09:30 AM:[/B] Firing has been heard near Nariman House in Colaba. Police have cordoned off the area amid reports that terrorists are holed up in the building. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]09:09 AM: [/B]Curfew has been clamped in Colaba after firing intensified in the Taj hotel. Police are using smoke cannisters to disable terrorists' vision. Meanwhile, Hostages are being evacuated from the Taj hotel even as gunbattle rages. A journalist has been injured in the firing. All international flights from Mumbai have been cancelled.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]08:55 AM:[/B] Agencies have reported that terrorists are holed up inside the Cama Hospital. Commandoes have started firing at terrorists. [B]08:05 AM:[/B] Fresh firing erupted early on Thursday in Taj hotel as commandos moved in to flush out terrorists holding some foreigners hostage.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Sharp shooters of army, NSG and other security forces moved into Mumbai's landmark hotel. Police believe that the number of holed out terrorists could be three or four.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Another luxury hotel Trident (formerly Oberoi) was under siege with some terrorists holding some foreigners hostage.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]07:50 AM:[/B] [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]More grim news is coming in from Taj Hotel, where several staff members have been feared killed in the terrorist attack.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Over 100 guests are still stuck inside the hotel, where two terrorists are reportedly holed up.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]At Nariman House in Colaba, onlookers informed that the police exchanged fire about an hour ago.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]The place looked like a riot-hit site, swarming with police officials and military trucks. Most people have been holed up here since an explosion shook the area at 10.30 pm.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]The explosion occurred when the terrorists lobbed hand grenades at the local petrol pump. The blast was followed by a gunfight between police forces and the terrorists.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]06:20 AM:[/B] The hostage crisis continued at Taj Hotel in the wee hours of Thursday as Army commandos moved in to flush out the terrorists.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Meanwhile, Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh assured that there was no hostage situation at Cama Hospital in South Mumbai.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]An Army commando was reportedly injured in the shoot-out. An explosion was also reported in the lobby of the Taj Hotel [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]04:23 AM:[/B] Vaihayasi Pande-Daniel reports that the fire that engulfed the old wing of the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai has been put out. Though the major conflagration has been contained, flames continue to flicker, occasionally leaping into life, at the corner of the heritage wing. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Police and fire brigade personnel have placed ladders against the side of the building, and are bringing hotel guests out through that means. Some foreigners who had been evacuated were being ferried to a nearby hospital for first aid, while others are being taken by bus to alternate accommodations. Officials here estimate that most of the guests inside the hotel have been evacuated. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Commandos of the Indian navy meanwhile have staked out vantage points covering all exit points, while others of their number prowl around the perimeter of the hotel. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]A group of Taj employees stood clustered on the pavement opposite the hotel, staring at the hotel through tear-filled eyes. They had been told to leave, they said � but clearly, they could not bring themselves to walk away from a hotel that, to them and to most Mumbaikars, is shared heritage than mere hotel. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Elsewhere, an attractive young woman attempted to restore some semblance of order to her silver-zari sari. She was drenched, and still disoriented from her experiences of the night. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]"We were partying, and suddenly there was firing all over," the woman, who had just been evacuated by ladder from a window some 30 feet up, recalled. "I'd read about such things in the paper, and routinely turned the page� but when it happens to you, when you experience it�"[/SIZE][/FONT] [LEFT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]03:57 AM:[/B] Though the firefight at the Oberoi is still far from finished, the takeover of the operation by units of the Indian Army [COLOR=#757577][FONT=verdana][[/FONT][/COLOR][URL="http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=indian%20army"][FONT=verdana]Images[/FONT][/URL][COLOR=#757577][FONT=verdana]][/FONT][/COLOR] appears to have taken the South Mumbai hotel off the 'critical' list. [/SIZE][/FONT][/LEFT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Vaihayasi Pande-Daniel reports for Rediff that most of the one dozen fire trucks that had been stationed around the Oberoi have been dispatched to the Taj Mahal Hotel, where a blazing fire threatens to devastate the old wing of the iconic hotel. Daniel cites police sources as saying the army commandoes are doing a systematic sweep of the hotel, lobbing grenades ahead of them to take out hidden dangers before securing each successive wing of the hotel. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]The constant bang of grenades from within the hotel continues to alarm the crowds gathered outside the hotel, and kept at a distance by police. Not all of them have come to gape, however. Vadhavan, a businessman from New Delhi, sits in rumpled attire on the parapet of Marine Drive [COLOR=#757577][FONT=verdana][[/FONT][/COLOR][URL="http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=marine%20drive"][FONT=verdana]Images[/FONT][/URL][COLOR=#757577][FONT=verdana]][/FONT][/COLOR], trying to stay awake. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]He had arrived in Mumbai this evening at the head of a 13-member business delegation. He was in the act of checking into the Oberoi when the firing began. "I think the shooting started at the Oberoi," says Vadhavan. "They ushered us all out through a side entrance and told us to leave. I got separated from the rest of my group; I think they are waiting on the other side of the hotel." [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]The flushing out operation is far from finished; Vadhavan's wait threatens to extend through what remains of this night. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]3:42 AM:[/B] At the Taj Hotel, where a joint operation involving the Mumbai police, the Central Reserve Police Force and a commando group from the Navy is engaged in flushing out terrorists within the premises, PTI reports that almost all the guests have been brought out to safety at the time of writing this. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]The situation continues to remain dangerous, however, with an indeterminate number of terrorists within the hotel, two of whom are believed to be holding a group of tourists hostage on an upper floor. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Meanwhile, the fire that erupted in the old wing of the historic hotel has spread alarmingly. The fire now burns bright across at least two mid-level floors of the old wing, and thick clouds of black smoke spew from the signature minaret that crowns the hotel's roof. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]03: 06 AM:[/B] A little over four hours since gunshots first erupted at the CST railway terminal, and coordinated terrorist attacks spread to various parts of South Bombay, the situation remains fluid. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]At the Taj Mahal Hotel, a contingent of Navy commandos has joined the police and Central Reserve Police Force personnel attempting to enter the hotel and flush out the terrorists. From within the hotel, word is that occasional explosions, and sporadic gunfire, continue at the time of writing this. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]At the Oberoi Hotel, the army has taken over the operation and entered the hotel; it is now reportedly engaged in flushing out the terrorists hiding within. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]At the Cama Hospital, a specialty medical center for women and children, official sources say terrorists are holed up on the fourth floor and have been firing from that vantage point. Police have surrounded the hospital and are engaging the terrorists in an ongoing gun battle. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]02:50 AM:[/B] Communist Party of India-Marxist leader and Member of Parliament N N Krishnadas, who is staying at the Taj Mahal Hotel, reports that as late as 2:10 AM, explosions could be heard from within the premises. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Krishnadas told CNN that he is holed up in a room, and outside of the noise of explosions and gunfire has no real idea what is happening within the premises. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Meanwhile, the fire that broke out in one of the hotel's middle floors has been spreading upwards, adding a fresh hazard both to the police and CRPF personnel engaged in the anti-terrorist operation and to the guests within the hotel. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Even as police sources upped the toll in today's terrorist strikes in Mumbai at 80 and counting, police continue to lay siege to the Taj Mahal Hotel, where two terrorists are believed to be holding at least 15 guests hostage on one of the upper floors of the hotel. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]The police are at this point in time unsure whether the two hostage takers are the only terrorists within the hotel. Meanwhile, the Indian Army has moved into the Oberoi and the Trident, the two other South Mumbai hotels targeted in today's terrorist strikes. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]A[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2] battalion of the Indian army entered the Oberoi and began an operation against the terrorists holed up inside. The army was called in after the police took several casualties, including the deaths of some senior officers. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]With the army now in charge of this phase of the operation � the first time the Indian army is operating in the city since the 1992 riots � the police has fallen back and is focusing on cordoning off the area. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Vaihayasi Pande-Daniel, reporting for Rediff.com from outside the Oberoi Hotel, reports that with the cordon being drawn tight, people waiting outside are in a state of panic, and desperately searching for information. A group of senior bankers from Hyderabad are among those inside the hotel to attend a conference; their Mumbai-based colleagues are outside, awaiting word of their fate.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]02: 25 AM:[/B] Mumbai's Anti-Terrorist Squad chief Hemant Karkare died of bullet wounds in the ongoing battle against armed terrorists that is raging across several parts of South Mumbai. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Vijay Salaskar, an officer attached to the Mumbai police who has been famed as an 'encounter specialist', was seriously injured in the ongoing gun battle and has been rushed to hospital. In all, seven Mumbai policemen are believed killed thus far. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Meanwhile, Railway Police Chief Ashok Sharma told Rediff.com that at least 40 people were killed inside Mumbai's nodal Chatrapathi Sivaji Terminus. "The attack started around 9.35 pm," Sharma said. "Two terrorists were inside. We can confirm at least 40 people killed." [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]It is yet unclear whether the terrorists are still on-site, have left, or been killed. Sharma said there had been no firing from within the terminus for the last two hours. "Despite this, we are not allowing people to go into the station as we are worried that the terrorists might have planted bombs or left live grenades in the station," he said. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Sharma said the official belief is that the two terrorists had sneaked out of the station in the confusion following the original assault. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Sudhir Dalvi, a sub-inspector attached to the Mumbai cell of the Anti-Terrorist Squad, told Sheela Bhatt for Rediff.com that his boss, ATS chief Hemant Karkare, and senior police officers Vijay Salaskar and Additional Commissioner of Police Ashok Kamte, were killed in an incident outside Mumbai's Cama Hospital. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]"Our chief Karkare, my senior officer Salaskar and ACP Kamte died while engaging terrorists outside the Cama hospital," a sobbing Dalvi told Rediff.com. "All of a sudden, terrorists threw grenades at Karkare leading to chaos. We are unable to confirm whether they fell to terrorist fire or were killed by the grenades." [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Meanwhile, the army has moved into the Trident Hotel, the third five-star hotel in the South Mumbai region that had been targeted in tonight's coordinated terrorist strikes. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]02:10 AM: [/B]It is now believed that 15 people, at least seven of them foreigners, have been taken hostage by two terrorists and are being held on the roof of the Taj Mahal Hotel. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Rakesh Patel, a London-based businessman who managed to escape, told NDTV that the two terrorists, estimated to be in their early 20s, came to a restaurant on the ground floor of the Taj, rounded up the hostages and took them to the 18th floor. Patel, who was one among them, managed at that point to escape. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Patel said the terrorists asked if any of the hostages were carrying American or British passports, and said he got the clear impression that they wanted foreigners. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]01:50 AM:[/B] Krishnakumar reports from the Juhu region that a bomb went off in a taxi that was speeding along the Western Express Highway from Vile Parle towards Andheri, killing two people and injuring two others. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]"The taxi exploded and went up in flames as it sped past the traffic island under the flyover at the domestic airport," an eyewitness said on phone. "The vehicle, which was up in flames soon after it crossed the traffic signal, was on the left side. A bystander and a person in the taxi were killed. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Reports indicate that this was perhaps the night's highest-intensity blast. Krishnakumar reports that the taxi's doors were found a distance of 50 meters or more away, and body parts of the victims had been thrown even further. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]01:43 AM:[/B] At least two suspected terroristswere shot dead minutes earlier at the corner of Mumbai's Chowpatty. Rediff's Vaihayasi Pande-Daniel, who is on the site, reports that the area has been cordoned off and is swarming with police officers; the Skoda is under guard and a cellphone, a jacket, and items of footwear are strewn around the vehicle. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Meanwhile at the Taj Mahal Hotel, the standoff between police, who have surrounded the hotel, and terrorists who are holed up inside, continues.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]A short while ago, power went off in parts of the hotel, adding to the sense of panic and fear. Well known food critic Sabina Sahgal Saikia, who is inside the hotel, told NDTV on phone just now that the guests are terrified, and unaware of just what is happening around them. It is unclear at this point in time whether the power has been turned off by the police as they battle the terrorists. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]01:27 AM:[/B] Rediff's Vaihayasi Pande Daniel calls in from the Marine Drive region to report that the approaches to the South Mumbai area have been shut down, and that sounds of firing are audible as far away as Mumbai's famed Queen's Necklace stretch, though the source of the firing is unclear. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Meanwhile, a foreign national who managed to escape from the Taj Mahal Hotel, where a state of seige currently exists, told NDTV that armed and masked gunmen were wandering around inside the hotel, looking for people with American or British passports. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]The eyewitness account appears to confirm the growing belief among law enforcement circles that this latest attack is aimed directly at foreign nationals -- hence the choice of star hotels as prime targets. They further theorize that automatic weapons are being used rather than bombs in order to orchestrate such targeted mayhem. [/SIZE][/FONT] Meanwhile, the real dangers of the situation are being exaggerated by a proliferation of rumors. One such that has been aired on a few channels including CNN suggested that firing was taking place at the JW Marriott, another five star hotel in the Juhu region of suburban Mumbai. A source in the hotel however confirmed to Rediff just now that there was no alarm at the hotel, and no incident of any kind had taken place. [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]12:44 AM:[/B] A gun battle is ongoing in the Taj Hotel in Colaba. Within the last ten minutes, a guest at the hotel got word out to CNN via email that a grenade had exploded within the hotel premises just then. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Additional Commissioner of Police AN Roy and other officials confirmed that some armed terrorists are holed up in the iconic hotel. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Police officials said they have no information of a hostage situation; they say guests have been sequestered in safe areas of the hotel, and the police are now engaged in flushing out the terrorists from their hiding place.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][B]Reportage by: Vaihayasi Daniel, Krishnakumar, Prasanna Zore, Syed Firdaus Ashraf, Uttam Ghosh, Sanjay Sawant, Satish Bodas. Additional reportage: PTI/UNI[/B][/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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