Terror Attacks in India - AK-47s, grenades, hostages

[Captain Tuttle]

Locations hits include those sites frequented by foreigners, terrorists holding hostages identifying Americans and British using passports.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7751160.stm

Mumbai rocked by deadly shootings
Gunmen have opened fire at a number of sites in the Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay), killing at least 16 people and injuring others, local reports say.

Police said the shootings appeared to be terrorist attacks.

Gunmen opened fire in at least seven sites, including a train station, two five-star hotels, a hospital and a restaurant popular with tourists.

There has been a wave of bombings in Indian cities in recent months which has left scores of people dead.

Most of the attacks have been blamed on Muslim militants, although police have also arrested suspected Hindu extremists.

At least two blasts, suspected to be grenade attacks, were reported alongside Wednesday's shootings.

Police said the gunmen had fired indiscriminately.

"The terrorists have used automatic weapons and in some places grenades have been lobbed," said AN Roy, police commissioner of Maharashtra state.

Some gunmen were still holed up in buildings that had been targeted, police said.

Sajjad Karim, an MEP for the North West of England who is in Mumbai, told the BBC he had seen a gunman opening fire in the lobby of Taj Mahal hotel.

He said he had seen people fall before fleeing to a restaurant, where the doors had been barricaded.

"All I saw was one man on foot carrying a machine gun type of weapon - which I then saw him firing from and I saw people hitting the floor, people right next to me," he said.

The other hotel targeted was the Oberoi.

[Dredly]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,457885,00.html

[gunga]

The pictures are crazy.

[viva la ben]

9 locations in south Mumbai(Bombay). These coordinated attacks worry me.

[King 5.45]

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[Brown-Bear]

And people wonder why I have no desire to travel outside the states we have enough violence here, I don't need to take a 16hr flight to get shot at thanks but, no thanks.

Dave W.

[birdhunter317]

Well there goes computer tech support!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Rick Thorne]

And the Dems want to disarm us? This is the perfect opportunity for CCW advocates and The NRA to jump in. I bet they won't! We The Sheeple are in line for that kind of terror attack to if disarmed.

[1861]

don,t they have gun control in INDIA ? I saw alot of EBR,s .

[Captain Tuttle]

don,t they have gun control in INDIA ? I saw alot of EBR,s .

They do. Very strict. Private gun ownership limited to the privileged and connected. And even then, cannot own "military" calibers.

What's eye opening is that these terrorists did not use car bombs, explosives, etc. They walked downtown with AKs, grenades and handguns and started blasting.

The unarmed citizens never had a chance.