MUMBAI, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) -- Four top police officials
were among the 10 policemen killed as security forces took on terrorists here in
the early hours of Thursday following a series of attacks in this India's
financial capital, which killed at least 80 people and injured 250 others,
authorities said.
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A reporter talks on her phone as smoke
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Mumbai Police Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief Hemant
Karkare was among the dead. Two Indian Police Service (IPS) officers, additional
police commissioners Ashok Kamte and Sadanand Date, were killed in separate gun
battles with terrorists, the authorities said.
Mumbai Police "encounter specialist" Vijay Salaskar
were also shot dead in another gun battle. Karkare was heading investigations
into several recent cases of terrorist attacks here. There were six other police
officials among the at least 80 killed in the coordinated terror attacks late
Wednesday night.
At least 80 killed in Mumbai attacks,
little-known group claims responsibility
MUMBAI, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) -- A little-known group
that called itself Deccan Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the serial
attacks that have killed at least 80 people and injured 250 others in India's
financial capital of Mumbai Wednesday night, news reports said.
Two terrorists were still inside the Oberoi Hotel, one of
the two five star hotels under attack, and commando operation was on. Two
terrorists were killed at Chaupatti, police said. Full story
EU strongly condemns terrorist attacks
in Mumbai
BRUSSELS, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- The European
Commission, the executive arm of the European Union (EU), strongly condemned the
terrorist attacks in Mumbai Wednesday night , while rendering its support for
the Indian government in the fight against terrorism.
"The European Commission condemns in the strongest
terms the heinous terrorist attacks this night in Mumbai which have cost the
lives of many innocent people and injured others. Terrorism is never justified
and is no means to achieve any goal. We stand by the Indian government in its
fight against terrorism," said the commission in a statement. Full story
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Smoke is seen coming from Taj Hotel in
Mumbai November 27, 2008. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
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