For three days in November 2008, Mumbai – India‘s commercial capital and the heart of its Bollywood film industry – was in lockdown.
Beginning on 26 November, ten heavily armed men, allegedly from the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba group, launched a string of attacks on sites across the city, seizing high-profile buildings and holding civilians hostages.
Thick plumes of smoke hung over the capital’s precious symbols, the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel and the 121-year-old Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, along with a cinema, a Jewish cultural centre and a cafe in the southern business district.
By the end of the offensive, at least 166 people, including nationals from more than two dozen countries were killed.
Amongst the dead were eight Israelis. …..more
