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Saturday, 29 November 2008


Indian police officers run to a new position around the landmark Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai, India, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2008. Indian commandos killed the last remaining gunmen holed up at the luxury Mumbai hotel Saturday, ending a 60-hour rampage through India's financial capital by suspected Islamic militants that rocked the nation. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) INDIAN commandos killed the last remaining gunmen holed up at a luxury Mumbai hotel today, ending a 60-hour rampage that killed 195 people in India's financial capital.

Authorities were now shifting their focus to who was behind the attacks.

Cruise operators are now thinking of stayting away from the troubled region including, Royal Caribbean's Legend of the Seas on a 27-night cruise from Rome to Singapore due in the Indian port on Sunday.

Seabourn Spirit and Azamara Quest are due in on December 7 and Oceania's Nautica on December 9.

Between March and April the number of ships visiting Mumbai peak, but in 2009, the city could lose millions of cruise dollars, if the super liners stay away for fear of passengers not wishing to book on ships that call at the port. 

Cunard, Fred. Olsen, Silversea, P&O, Holland America, Regent, Princess and Seabourn are all calling in 2009.

Mumbai is is also home to Bollywood - the country's booming film industry.

A previously unknown Muslim group claimed responsibility for the attack, which killed 18 foreigners. Indian officials said the sole surviving gunman was from Pakistan and pointed a finger of blame at their neighbour. Islamabad denied involvement and promised to help in the investigation.
A team of FBI agents was on its way to India to lend assistance.  

Orange flames and black smoke engulfed the landmark 565-room Taj Mahal hotel after dawn today as Indian forces ended the siege there in a hail of gunfire, just hours after elite commandos stormed a Jewish centre and found nine hostages dead.
Some 295 people also were wounded in the violence that started when at least a dozen heavily armed assailants attacked 10 sites across Mumbai on Wednesday night. At least 20 soldiers and police were among the dead.
"There were three terrorists, we have killed them," said JK Dutt, director general of India's elite National Security Guard commando unit.

Some hotel guests were still believed to be in their rooms. "They are still scared, so even when we request them to come out and identify ourselves, they are naturally afraid," Mr Dutt said.
With the end of one of the most brazen terror attacks in India's history, attention turned from the military operation to questions of who was behind the attack and the heavy toll on human life.
Among the foreigners killed were six Americans, according to the US Embassy. The dead also included Germans, Canadians, Israelis and nationals from Britain, Italy, Japan, China, Thailand, Australia and Singapore.
By this morning the death toll was at 195, the deadliest attack in India since 1993 serial bombings in Mumbai killed 257 people. But officials said the toll from the three days of carnage was likely to rise as more bodies were brought out of the hotels.

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