Mumbai Terrorist Attacks, 26 November 2008

Coordinated terrorist attacks involving at least ten locations in Mumbai, India. Western tourists have been taken hostage in the Taj, Oberoi and Ramada Hotels in the city.

The November 2008 Mumbai Aattacks were a series of ten coordinated attacks that occurred across Mumbai (Bombay), India's financial capital and largest city, on 26 November 2008. The attacks continued at least until 28 November at least 160 People including at least twenty-two foreign nationals have been confirmed dead, and at least 327 habe been injured. All except one of the attacks took place in South Mumbai; at the crowded Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) railway station; at two five-star hotels: the Oberoi Trident at Nariman Point, and Taj Mahal Palace & Tower near the Gateway of India; at the Leopold Café, a popular tourist restaurant in Calaba; at the Cama Hospital; at the Orthodox Jewish-owned Nariman House; at the Matro Adlabs movie theatre; and at the Mumbai Police Headquarters where at least three high-level officers, including chief of the Anti Terrorism Squad of Maharashtra, were killed by gunfire. The tenth incident involved a taxi blast at Vile parle near the airoport but it is uncertain whether this is connccted with the South Mumbai attacks. Between fifty and sixty terrorists have been involved in the attacks.