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AMagazine MUMBAI: Two luxury hotels in Mumbai that were stormed by militants re-opened amid tight security on Sunday, less than a month after devastating attacks that rocked India's financial and entertainment hub.The Trident and Taj Mahal hotels received their first guests since the carnage, with staff praised for their dedication and resilience as others called for defiance in the face of extremism.Ratan Tata, the head of the Tata Group conglomerate that owns the Taj, dedicating the relaunch to all those who lost their lives, said the swift reopening of the hotel's modern Tower wing was the start of a "new era.""I believe that the opening of this hotel will send a message that we can come alive again in a record period of time and play a role and continue to be part of this great city," he told reporters.The 105-year-old Palace wing of the Taj remains closed but Tata said its reopening "would send an even stronger message, not just for the Taj but for...

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AMagazine MUMBAI: A militant holed up inside Mumbai's Oberoi Hotel told a news channel on Thursday that seven attackers were holding hostages inside the luxury establishment. "There are seven of us inside hotel Oberoi," the man identified as Sahadullah told the channel. "We want all Mujahideens held in India released and only after that we will release the people." "Release all the Mujahideens, and Muslims living in India should not be troubled," he said. Fresh firing erupted early on Thursday in Taj hotel as commandoes moved in to flush out terrorists holding some foreigners hostage after a night of terror targeting ten places in Mumbai. Smoke was 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. Army commandoes moved into the luxury Oberoi and the Taj Mahal hotels...

AMagazine MUMBAI: Teams of gunmen stormed luxury hotels, a popular restaurant, a crowded train station and a Jewish group's headquarters in India's financial capital, killing at least 101 people, taking Westerners hostage and leaving parts of the city under siege Thursday, police said. A group of suspected Muslim militants claimed responsibility. Police and gunmen were exchanging occasional gunfire at two luxury hotels and dozens of people were believed held hostage or trapped in besieged buildings. Pradeep Indulkar, a senior official at the Maharashtra state Home Ministry said 101 people were killed and 287 injured. Officials said at least eight militants had also been killed since the overnight attacks that targeted at least 10 separate sites began around 9:30 p.m. Gunmen also seized the Mumbai headquarters of the ultra-orthodox Jewish outreach group Chabad Lubavitch, the New York-based group said. Indian commandos surrounded the building in the morning, and media reports sai...

AMagazine MUMBAI: It is one of the plushest hotels in India, if not the world, but for one night it became a terrifying battleground, complete with gun battles, explosions and a raging fire. "That was, without doubt, the worst experience of my entire life," said one woman guest after she was rescued by firemen from Mumbai's famed Taj Hotel, which was caught in the middle of a multi-pronged militant attack across India's financial capital. "It was a very, very painful six hours," said the woman, who had lain on the floor of a hotel room with 25 other petrified guests, while hostage-taking gunmen roamed the hotel and fought off special units of naval commandos. "We really didn't know what was going on," she told reporters. "But we could hear the army coming through the hotel. We heard the firing and the blasts." Military units stormed the hotel in the early hours of Thursday morning to confront a handful of gunmen armed with assault rif...

AMagazine Mumbai: Police say a series of attacks by terrorist gunmen have hit at least seven sites in Mumbai, including two luxury hotels. Indian television is reporting that 25 people have been killed. A.N. Roy, a senior police officer, saidpolice were battling the gunmen. "The terrorists have used automatic weapons and in some places grenades have been lobbed. The encounters are still going on and we are trying to overpower them," Roy said. The gunmen attacked two luxury hotels, the Taj and the Oberoi, as well as the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus station in southern Mumbai and Leopold's restaurant, a Mumbai landmark. Television stations showed fires in the lobby of both hotels and people being evacuated from the Oberoi with their hands on their heads. India has suffered a wave of bomb attacks in recent years. Most have been blamed on Islamist militants, although police have also arrested suspecte...

AMagazine Mumbai Report: Nov 26: Indiscriminate firing and coordinated blasts in eight places of South Mumbai left 16 dead and around 50 injured in the nation’s financial capital on Wednesday night. All the blasts have taken place in the vicinity of posh hotels in the area, including the Taj and the Trident. The firing has taken places at the Chattrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) railways station, outside Café Leopold in Colaba, Nariman point and outside the Taj and the Tridient, formely Oberoi hotel. Indiscriminate firing was reported from the Taj hotel, with sources saying that 4 terrorists could be holed up inside. The terror strike which began at 1033 PM at Chhatrapathi Shivaji Terminus(CST),formerly known as the Victoria Terminus(VT), claimed 10 lives in the premises of the station alone, police said. Three persons were killed in a bomb explosion in a taxi on Mazegaon dockyard road and an equal number were gunned down at Taj Hotel. The victim in the hot...

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