On November 26, 2008, ten young people took a rubber dinghy and landed in a slum fishing port in Mumbai, a city on the west coast of India. They were divided into five groups, with two people in each group, heading to the Taj Mahal Hotel, Central Railway Station, Leopold Café, Oberoi Hotel and Nariman Building.
This is their first visit to Mumbai. This city with a population of more than 20 million is India's largest financial center, and it contributes 40% of the country's tax revenue. It is also the largest entertainment center, where Bollywood was born. Although this group of young people already knew the city well on the map, they were stunned to witness its excitement and prosperity. There are tall buildings, crowds, neat streets, and vehicles passing by. In contrast, their hometown is like a primitive jungle. Before coming here, they had never walked out of the rolling mountains of Pakistan.
The conditions in the mountains are difficult. They live in poverty. Education and medical care are all things that are beyond hope. They have many brothers and sisters, but they can't even eat enough, let alone married or married. One day, a group of mysterious people approached them and told them a way to get rid of poverty, as long as they went to a more remote place for ten months of training. More than 30 young people were agitated and followed this group to the headquarters of their organization: Pakistan-controlled Kashmir.
During the training, they received rounds of brainwashing, learned to use mobile phones and the most advanced satellite phones, and were very adept at guns and grenades. The other party promised to remit 10,000 U.S. dollars to their home, which is the reward for their actions. Among those trained, only ten were allowed to participate in the action. Ten months later, they crossed the India-Pakistan border and came to Gujarat, India. They robbed a trawler in the Arabian Sea and killed four crew members. That was their first murder, and it was also a rehearsal for the subsequent terrorist attack. They took a fishing boat to the west coast of Mumbai, and then transferred to a rubber boat to land in a poor fishing port. In India, the severe shortage of naval ships and helicopters caused the Coast Guard to be useless, so they successfully avoided the surveillance of naval posts and reached their destination by sea.
All kinds of plastic garbage piled on the shore also reflects the serious pollution in Indian cities from the side. Although this is their first visit to Mumbai, they are skilled in taking taxis to the locations of their respective missions. It turned out that as early as a few months ago, there were organized eyeliners pretending to be Malaysian students who came here to step on them. They were familiar with the distribution of Mumbai and the structure of the target building. India’s religious sects are complex, especially the conflicts between Hinduism and Muslims. Terrorist attacks occur frequently here, especially in Mumbai. This city is so unfortunate. Terrorist attacks and explosions occurred in 1993, 2002, 2003, and 2006. However, none of the previous ones were as violent as the upcoming one.
Just like the series of terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka some time ago, before the incident, the intelligence agencies of the United States, the United Kingdom, and India had all learned that an organization called the Pious Army might carry out terrorist attacks in India. However, the uncertainty of time and location and the reliability of the source of the information have collectively turned a blind eye to the intelligence agencies of the three countries. After all, compared to famous terrorist organizations such as Al-Qaida and the Taliban, the Pious Army is just a small one, and they are placed in a less important position.
However, this time they were careless. The Pious Army has planned this attack for a long time, and has long hoped to boost the low morale through this operation. The Pyaq is an Islamic extremist organization whose base camp is located in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir on the border between India and Pakistan. The Pious Army originally had some connections with Pakistan, but as their behavior became more extreme and tyrannical, and full of hostility towards the Western world, the Pakistani side had some concerns and subsequently broke the connection. The organization is eager to gain attention through a major action.
The first group came to the Leopold Cafe. At that time, the people inside were drinking coffee and chatting leisurely. The two terrorists dropped a grenade, picked up an AK47 and fired at the crowd indiscriminately. Sudden changes caused all these leisurely guests to lie down and flee. Innocent people fell one after another, and the killing lasted for nearly forty-five minutes. Some of the surviving people fled to a place where they thought it was a safe refuge, but they didn't know that another group of terrorists had already lurked in it, disguised as backpackers. And the two attackers in the cafe are also rushing there.
The Taj Mahal Hotel is a century-old shop with luxurious decorations, like a paradise, countless politicians and celebrities have stayed here. There were more than 1,000 guests in the hotel that day, many of them came to Mumbai for work or vacation. Just before the arrival of the terrorists, the hotel was orderly and harmonious, but no one thought that it would become a Shura Field soon.
There were a few gunshots from the hotel and the massacre began. The two terrorists who came from the cafe formally joined the other two lurking here. They threw grenades at crowded places and shot all the living people in their sight. They fired layer by layer, searching room by room, and if the door was closed, they would kick the door and kill the guests inside. They took the walkie-talkie and obeyed the command from behind the scenes while killing. The people were terrified. Someone closed the door tightly and waited for rescue. Some fled to other places, such as kitchens and meeting rooms.
However, rescue has not arrived, because several other terrorist attacks are also taking place at this time. The police in Mumbai do not know how to respond for a while and can only passively run their lives. Obviously, the Pious Army did not define this operation as a terrorist attack, but a war, and a protracted war. In addition to bullets and grenades, terrorists’ backpacks also carry dry food and drugs. Dry food is to maintain physical strength, and drugs are to continue to excite. In Pakistan, they have already received training for siege warfare. They also know that the army will arrive sooner or later. They may not escape death. They only hope to kill more people before they die, and preferably foreigners.
Mumbai, Central Railway Station.
Passengers in the train station were walking in a hurry, and some people were waiting for the train to go home on the platform. Suddenly there was a loud noise, and screams came from the crowd. Back to back, the two terrorists swept towards the crowd with ak47. They swept around in circles. Within the radius of their bullets, no one was spared.
People fled one after another, and several police officers patrolling the train station also ran away, but they were not going to flee for their lives, but going to the gun library to pick up their guns. They didn't carry a gun with them, because there was no gun to carry. There was only one pistol and five rifles in the gun library, and the rifle was still an old gun from the Second World War and could only fire one bullet at a time. Police in India have low salaries and insufficient equipment. There are 180,000 police officers in Maharashtra, where Mumbai is located, but there are only 2,200 firearms, of which only 577 are in Mumbai. This means that most police officers in Mumbai can only carry batons. And even those police officers who have guns are very backward, and the number of bullets is completely insufficient. The police were holding old rifles and revolvers. The sniper's sniper rifle could not see people in the distance. Compared with terrorists' AK47 and grenades, the gap is too wide. Facing the powerful firepower of terrorists, these weak police officers decided to fight to the death, but in the end they were suppressed by the terrorists. In the exchange of fire, 50 civilians and eight policemen were killed.
After leaving the train station, the two terrorists attacked the parliament building again, and then came to a maternity and infant hospital, where they fired again. They were thirsty by murder, and in order to drink their saliva, they went to a private house and killed two civilians by the way. It seems that they are trying to create a scene of terrorist attacks everywhere in the city, so that the police in Mumbai can be exhausted. They installed a time bomb on the taxi they were taking. The poor taxi driver went out early and returned late every day to make a living, but died innocently. This world is so cruel.
After killing the civilians, the two changed their directions and rushed to the hospital, preparing to carry out another killing. The head of the Mumbai Special Forces, Herman Kakari, led seven police officers to intercept them, but they were attacked by terrorists halfway through, eight of them. The police all died. I have watched many Indian movies, and I feel deeply about the corruption of the Indian police, but I feel that these eight policemen deserve the title of policeman.
After a long wait, some people in the Taj Mahal Hotel are trying to save themselves. Someone tied the sheets and curtains together and hung them from the windows along the tied ropes. With this method, more than two hundred people were rescued, and no one was killed.
At the same time, another massacre is taking place in the Oberoi Grand Hotel, another hotel. There were still two young people. They first killed 9 staff members of the hotel, then set fire to the first floor of the hotel, and then they took 13 hostages. Under the cover of heavy smoke, eight of the hostages ran away with their eyelids lowered. After realizing that someone had escaped, the terrorists were furious. They killed three of the remaining five hostages. They only spared a Turkish couple. The couple survived because the terrorists found out. Their Muslim identity. During the attack, they have been reciting fragments of the Quran to pray.
The last group of terrorists came to the Nariman Building, and the other end of the walkie-talkie told them that killing one person here is worth killing five people elsewhere. Why? Because this is the center of Jewish activity in Mumbai, I don’t need to elaborate on the relationship between Jews and Muslims, right? However, due to the structural reasons of the entire building, the two did not cause huge casualties here. But they still killed two people, a Jewish rabbi and his wife who was six months pregnant. The methods used by the terrorists to kill the couple are extremely cruel. I really can’t bear to state the details. For details, you can go to the btv file.
In this way, ten terrorists disturbed Mumbai's chickens and dogs, and the whole city fell into panic. At this time, more than one hundred people have been killed, and the rest of the lives are unclear, and the media have been dispatched one after another. Everyone is anxiously waiting for rescue, but the Mumbai police cannot mobilize enough police force and equipment to deal with this situation. Where is hope again? The answer is: New Delhi, the capital, 1100 kilometers away. Only there is India's most elite counter-terrorism force: the National Security Force.
I checked the information on the Internet. Most of India’s elite counter-terrorism forces are concentrated in the capital, New Delhi, to protect politicians and high-ranking officials, that is, various ministers. It is not difficult to understand that India has many sects and various contradictions have led to India's number of terrorist attacks among the peaceful countries in the world. In order to vote, politicians may win over certain factions, so they become targets of attacks by rival factions.
Some netizens may ask, the attack occurred in 2008, when communications were developed, and news of the attack should reach New Delhi soon, right? That's right, the national security forces received the news 90 minutes later, and then it took five hours before they set off from New Delhi.
What? Did you leave five hours after receiving the news? What have they been doing these five hours?
The answer is that they are waiting for the plane. Because there is only one anti-terrorist base nearby, it is located in Manisa (belonging to Haryana State) 1400 kilometers away. They had to get the plane at four in the morning at the earliest and arrive in Mumbai at six in the morning. When they could move, it was about eight in the morning on the 27th. (Data comes from the documentary "Return to the scene of the crisis-Mumbai Massacre").
More than two hundred commandos finally arrived at the scene of the crisis, but this does not mean that victory will come soon, they still have to go through a long and arduous battle.
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This battle is not easy to fight for two reasons. First of all, the special forces are in the light, the terrorists are in the dark, and the terrorists attack from the bottom layer by layer, setting fires and deploying bombs everywhere, occupying the commanding heights, and knowing the movements of the special forces. Secondly, terrorists still have the most important bargaining chip in their hands, that is, the hostages they have taken. At this time, there are still many people trapped. Terrorists can attack any target within sight, but the security forces are unavoidably restricted everywhere. But this is a war that is destined to win, because the four targets have been surrounded by security forces and the terrorists cannot escape even if they have three heads and six arms. The operation was code-named "Black Whirlwind" and the goal was to capture terrorists alive as much as possible. The first battle was chosen at the Oberoi Trident Hotel, the most difficult location. The hotel has a total of 30 floors and a total of 887 rooms, which means that it is more difficult to accurately locate terrorists. The terrorists had already set fire on the ground floor of the hotel, and even they themselves were smoked upstairs. At this time, more than ten hours had passed since the attack, and the continued excitement made them feel a little physically exhausted, and they even appeared in a trance mentally. The two locked the Turkish couple in a room and ate all the food in the refrigerator. After a while, they opened the door to the outside to check the situation. At this time, a small oversight made them about to face death. It turned out that they forgot to take their backpacks when they went out. The backpack contained all the ammunition and grenades. When they realized the problem, it was too late. The couple had already called for help. "The enemy has run out of ammunition and food. Come in quickly!"
When the special forces received the news, their actions immediately became swift. At this moment, there was a rapid knock on the door outside the room. Obviously, the two terrorists understood the seriousness of the problem, and they almost snarled and rammed the door. The couple's hearts are full of anxiety and conflict. Should we open the door? This is a question that must be resolved immediately. Although the terrorist’s backpack is in their hands, the other party still holds a gun. When the terrorist smashes the door open, the two will not be as lucky as last time.
"Please, open the door quickly, because everyone is a Muslim brother."
Hearing this sentence, the hearts of the husband and wife were touched at the same time, but then they recovered their calm, "These people are not worthy of forgiveness at all. These murderous demons are not real Muslims!"
The couple took a gamble, no matter how the other party hits the door, they are not moved, but silently in their hearts that support will come sooner. Unexpectedly, although the terrorists had guns in their hands, they did not blast open the door with guns. The special forces had rushed up, and the special forces threw grenades at them. With a burst of gunfire, two terrorists The molecule fell to the ground and died.
Finally, the first location was breached, and the morale of the special forces was greatly boosted. The Turkish couple made great contributions. However, what they said in an interview afterwards moved people.
"When they saw me turning on the tap and the water came out, they all showed incredible expressions, like seeing an object from outer space, and one of them was full of curiosity in his eyes, and even wanted to touch it with his hand. , But in the end he held it back because his hand was holding the target."
Yes, these killers are all from extremely poor mountainous areas, ignorant, ignorant, cold-blooded, and cruel. I don't know that the word is the most accurate description of them. They will use the most advanced satellite phones, but have they ever seen the tap water? They are hovering on the edge of human civilization and are incompatible with the modern world. Are they sad or hateful?
The battle for the Oberoi Hotel has temporarily come to an end. At this time, the tense standoff in the Nariman Building, the Jewish Center, continues.
The two sides confronted each other all night. Because the terrorists resorted to a trick that gave the Indian government a headache.
Previously, the terrorists had taken five hostages, and they asked them to call the Israeli embassy in India, hoping to raise the incident to a diplomatic issue. In this way, for the safety of foreign citizens, the Indian government is bound to have some scruples. The terrorists also offered to exchange the hostages with their captured accomplices, which naturally did not receive a response from the Indian government, so the situation remained stalemate like this.
After killing the Jewish rabbi and his wife who was six months pregnant, the terrorists patrolled the building from room to room. A picture hung on the wall caught their attention. There were three people in the photo. Two of them were the Jewish couple they had brutally killed, and the other child seemed to be about five or six years old.
It turned out that the couple also had an eldest son.
The eldest son is probably in the hotel! Must be cut to death without leaving a living!
The terrorists acted immediately. They carefully scanned every corner of the hotel, rummaging through boxes and cabinets, searching back and forth, but they never saw the target.
Isn't the eldest son of the Jewish couple in the hotel?
It turned out that his son was taken into the basement by his nanny. The two hid in a hidden corner, always looking for an appropriate time to escape.
After waiting a whole night in agony, taking advantage of a certain opportunity, the nanny finally sneaked out with the couple's eldest son.
"They're all dead, they're all dead!" After coming out, the nanny yelled to the police around him. It turned out that the five hostages had already been executed by terrorists. They lied that they had taken the hostages just to delay time.
At this time, the special forces had no worries about the future. The airborne troops quickly landed on the roof, and ground troops from all directions opened fire violently in the building. The entire course of the action was broadcast live by various media in all directions without blind spots. Audiences from all over the world were sitting nervously in front of the TV, staring at the screen.
Suddenly, the TV screen freezes and the live broadcast stops abruptly.
It turns out that the behind-the-scenes command of the terrorists is also watching the live broadcast. They learn about the movements of the special forces through the live broadcast, and then use satellite phones to command the terrorists in real time. This is extremely detrimental to special forces, and they will face huge risks. Fortunately, this fatal problem was discovered in time, and the person in charge of the counter-terrorism operation immediately notified the relevant departments, and the live broadcast was interrupted.
Terrorists have become a turtle in the urn!
When counter-terrorism operations are in progress, they are always thrilling and exciting. But the demon was killed in an instant, and the two terrorists died without suspense under the rain of bullets.
The next location is the Taj Mahal Hotel.
Let us turn our attention back to Mumbai, India, more than a hundred years ago. At that time India was still in the British colonial period. One day, entrepreneur Jamsetji Tata invited his British friends to the Watson's Hotel by the sea for tea. As he walked to the door, the waiter gently stopped him, with a polite and indifferent tone: "I'm sorry, Indians are not served here." At that moment, the scene was very embarrassing, and Tata felt very angry, but as a successful entrepreneur , He showed his usual self-cultivation, he just smiled helplessly, and then left with his friend very politely.
At that moment, he felt that it was necessary to do something to change people's arrogance and prejudice. Although everything can't be done overnight, any huge change is inseparable from those small efforts. He made up his mind to build the most luxurious hotel in India, which will be open to everyone to show its generosity and tolerance.
After five years of construction, the Taj Mahal Hotel was finally completed in 1903. The hotel is majestic and elegant, with the sea on the back, and you can see the sunset in the distance from every room. Tata finally fulfilled its wish, and the Taj Mahal Hotel has become a famous landmark in Mumbai. Over the past 100 years, countless celebrities have come to live here. Presidents, princes, celebrities, and wealthy businessmen have all regarded staying here as a symbol of wealth and status.
The importance of this battle is self-evident.
At this time, there were still hundreds of people trapped in the hotel, and many places in the hotel were blazing fires. Cold guns shot out from the windows from time to time, so that the fire guards outside did not dare to approach easily. The four terrorists searched the hostages and checked their passports. If they were found to be American, British or Israeli, they were executed on the spot.
In a secret room on the first floor of the hotel, more than 300 guests anxiously used their mobile phones to communicate with the outside world. It turned out that some of the technical experts cut into the hotel's intranet, allowing the trapped personnel to use the network. Most of them contacted via text messages, while a few spoke softly on the phone. Everyone is silently praying that this place will not be discovered by terrorists.
The Internet makes people all over the world have the same concerns. An American contacted his mother on the other side of the ocean, and her mother hurriedly sent him a structure map of the hotel, asking him to find out where he is. While the Americans are searching for their own location, terrorists are also searching everywhere for this secret club called "Prince's Cabin".
How did the terrorists know that they were hiding here?
This is also due to the media. It turned out that a certain minister inside accepted a telephone interview. During the interview, he told reporters one to five to ten that there were several important people in the secret room where they were: three ministers and a cabinet secretary.
I know that in a country with a one-person-one-vote election system like India, there are still many farmers who do not know one word. Whenever the election comes, the poor people often do not pay attention to the issues discussed by the political parties. The primary goal is to remember the party icon, and then rely on the impression. To vote. After all, it is indeed difficult to distinguish more than 400 parties. Therefore, it is not incomprehensible for politicians to brush their presence in order to vote. But the minister obviously got the occasion wrong, because the terrorist’s behind-the-scenes command was also focusing on his telephone interview. After learning where they were hiding, he happily picked up the satellite phone next to him.
"There are several important people hiding in a certain house here. Find them quickly. They are very important hostages!"
The terrorists were overjoyed when they got the news. Danger, is approaching those trapped step by step.
The head of the guard JK Dutt and the captain of the anti-terrorist assault team, Colonel Sandy, led the offensive. The severity of this battle was beyond everyone's expectations. A related documentary on the National Geographic Channel restores the reality of this battle.
The terrorists chose to keep moving their positions and throwing grenades. They fired between the grenade throws, making the counter-terrorist team tired of coping. The terrorists took over the two wings of the hotel and fired condescendingly. The special forces were divided into three groups, one group went to the central staircase, and the other two groups outflanked the flanks. Special forces have an advantage in numbers, but their disadvantages are still obvious. Because this hotel is furnished with a large number of art treasures, special forces must always pay attention to avoid damaging them while fighting fire. Therefore, special forces use light weapons, and their attack strength is greatly reduced.
The fighting was fierce. From 10 o'clock in the evening the previous day to 9 o'clock in the morning the next day, the four terrorists were slowly forced into a blind spot. At this time, the police outside began to let go of their hands and feet. They used sniper rifles and grenades to fire violently at the location of the terrorists. The powerful firepower caused the four terrorists to be beaten into sieves. One of them was bombarded in the room with half of his body exposing the window, and then he was bombarded back by bullets outside.
In the hours after the terrorists were killed, there were still sporadic explosions from the hotel. The terrorists hid some bombs under the corpses of the victims. It was already the morning of the 29th when the bombs were completely removed and the fire extinguished.
In this battle, Colonel Sandy, the captain of the anti-terrorist assault team, died unfortunately. Colonel Sandy is young and handsome, and is a household name in India. He starred in the government's recruitment advertisements every year. Before the action, he hurriedly wrote a letter from his family, and then rushed to the battlefield. He was only 31 years old when he died, and the Indian government held a grand state funeral for him.
By this time, this terrorist attack is all over. Someone will definitely ask, didn’t it mean that there were ten terrorists in total? It seems that only eight were killed. How about the two young men who had massacred at the Central Railway Station and attacked Kakari, the head of counter-terrorism?
They were also intercepted by the local police before the end of the operation. One of them was killed and the other was captured alive, which is another thrilling story.
Let us turn our attention to the night of November 26th again.
Two terrorists slaughtered at the Central Railway Station and then ran around the city to carry out random attacks. They came to Karma Hospital, and after killing a few people, they wanted to drive away. At this time, the head of the counter-terrorism force, Herman Kakari, took seven police officers to intercept, but unfortunately they were in an ambush halfway, and all eight police officers were killed. The two terrorists snatched the police car and continued to flee.
Not long after they drove, they found that there was not much oil left in the car. Stopped the car and took a look, only to find that the fuel tank was leaked in the firefight just now. So they robbed an ordinary car and drove in the direction of the coastal road.
It was almost early in the morning, and two or three hours had passed since the initial attack, and the Mumbai authorities began to be at a loss and gradually came up with some countermeasures. At this time, almost all police officers in Mumbai were dispatched, and detectives who had already gone off work also rushed to support them.
Saulpati Beach is a necessary place for the coastal road. After the police learned of the terrorist's route, they set up checkpoints here to check the passing vehicles. At 00:02 that night, a white Skoda stopped thirty meters away from the checkpoint. The police shouted to the car, beckoning them to come for inspection. However, there was no movement, which made the police somewhat alert. Suddenly, the wiper in the car moved, and the atmosphere on the scene suddenly became tense. The car suddenly accelerated and rushed towards the police. The car slammed into the isolation barrier that had been set up a long time ago, and the police took out their pistols and fired at the car. The car stopped, and there seemed to be no movement inside. From a distance, the two gunmen had fallen into the car, and everyone thought they were dead.
However, the police were too careless.
A police detective without a gun slowly approached the car, completely unaware that the danger had not been lifted, and no one else thought of stopping it.
"There are still alive!" the detective yelled. Accompanied by his yelling, the gunfire rang again.
The detective who had been shot several times pressed the gunman who was still alive firmly under his body, holding on until only the last breath was left. Taking advantage of this gap, the rest of the police rushed forward and captured the gunman alive. The gunman was also seriously injured and was taken to the hospital. In the hospital, the police administered Veritaserum to the gunman, hoping to ask for some useful information.
"These people have made a lot of money, you can do it, you don't have to work hard, you are done, our family will have money, we will not be poor, your brothers and sisters will be able to get married, you see The children who see others can live a good life, and so can our family."
The gunman was named Kasab, from a small village in Punjab, Pakistan. In order to make a living, his father asked him to join a terrorist organization.
As far as I know, because of excessive poverty in certain areas of Pakistan, young people cannot find a way out, so they choose to join a jihadist organization. Poverty, sometimes really makes those who are decent people wipe out their conscience and become without a bottom line.
Kasab’s experience reminded me of the plot in "Why Home". A refugee couple living in Lebanon gave birth to many children, but their family was extremely poor. In order to survive, they married their daughter who was under thirteen to a male landlord who was nearly middle-aged. The daughter died because of heavy bleeding due to her pregnancy too early. I still can’t understand this. Since the hardships of life force them to endure by hurting their loved ones, why do they continue to allow those innocent lives to be born on earth?
At the same time, I also deeply feel the sorrow of being a poor person. The poor seem to have original sins and are always used by people with ulterior motives as a tool to achieve their own goals. In every general election in India, candidates value the votes of the poor. They take advantage of the short-sightedness of the poor to directly or indirectly give those people petty gains. When they are elected, they will intensify their corruption to fill the cost of election bribery. In the end, it is the poor who suffer.
There is only one disease in this world, that is, the disease of poverty-"I am not the god of medicine"
According to Kasab's account, the task given to him above is to kill, see who kills whom. The organization he belongs to is called the "Pious Army", which is a terrorist organization recognized by the United Nations and has been active in Pakistan's India-Pakistan border zone for a long time. As for those people above, he is not sure. When the police put a photo in front of him, he recognized the leader of the organization: Rehman Zarqawi.
When the attack first occurred, some news media in India received the same email one after another. A terrorist organization called the Deccan Mujahideen claimed to have caused the attack. However, the police did not believe their claims, after all, they had never heard of this organization before. Such a well-planned, coordinated, and behind-the-scenes attack is definitely not done by a novice.
The Mumbai court began to interrogate Kassab in April 2009. In May of that year, the court convicted Kassab of murder and war crimes against India, and Kassab was sentenced to death. It was not until November 2012 that Kasab was hanged in a prison in India.
The terrorist attack lasted a total of nearly 59 hours, resulting in at least 195 deaths and more than 300 injuries. India has suffered huge economic losses, and some foreign investors and trading partners have cancelled their original investment plans. The aviation, tourism and catering industries have been particularly affected. The performance of the Indian government in handling the crisis is indeed unsatisfactory. Many institutional weaknesses have been exposed, such as poor communication and coordination between local and central departments, imperfect anti-terrorism mechanisms, and outdated weapons and equipment. After the serial shootings in New Zealand this year, the resolute female prime minister quickly took control of the guns and achieved good results. The Indian government also announced many new measures after the terrorist attack, but unfortunately, many measures could not be implemented in place. In 2011, a series of bombings occurred in Mumbai, which made people feel embarrassed.
Finally, let's talk about some lace news related to it. As the world media conducted 72 hours of all-round coverage of the attack, the locations of the attack were more famous than before. Leopold Café also specially kept the bullet marks on the wall and the traces of grenade explosions, and the business became more popular. The Nariman Building is close to the Leopold Cafe and the Taj Mahal Hotel. Its neighborhood has also become a tourist attraction, and the business of street vendors has become better.
Life has to go on, right?
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Reference materials: 1. btv file "The 1126 terrorist attack in Mumbai, India"
2. "Return to the scene of the crisis --- Mumbai terrorist attack"
3. "Military Decoding --- Mumbai Terrorist Attack"
4. Various news and encyclopedias related to the terrorist attacks in Mumbai
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