The siege of various landmarks in the financial district of Mumbai, India has finally come to an end. Read about it and see a video below.
Mumbai Siege
Indian police are reporting that the Mumbia siege is over. Indian commandos stormed the Taj Hotel on Saturday morning (Indian time) and killed the last of the terrorists holed up in the hotel. Many people have reported still hearing blasts and gunfire after the siege was reported ended. However, that is reported to have been soldiers blasting open doors, detonating explosive on the terrorists bodies and looking for booby traps.
There are reports that people are probably still hiding in their hotel rooms, fearful that they are still not safe to expose themselves. Room to room searches are continuing to ensure that everyone is out of the hotel and that it is, indeed, secured. All of the terrorist are reported to have been killed.
On Friday the Oberoi-Triden Hotel was secured. One hundred hostages were rescued and 24 bodies were found in that hotel. Also, on Friday, the Nariman House, the Mumbai base of Chabad-Lubavitch, a New York-based orthodox Jewish organization, was secured. Sadly, the bodies of six people were found in the Jewish center. Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg were murdered along wither four others. The Holtzberg’s were just 29 and 28 years old. Their son turned 2-years-old today. He was rescued by an employee who swept him up in her arms as she escaped the building at the beginning of the siege. His maternal grandparents have flown up from Israel to take him.
The death toll at the Taj Hotel is not known. Some soldiers reported finding 30 bodies in a hallway when they entered one portion of the hotel. Most of the 195 dead and 295 injured in these attacks have been Indian citizens, including law enforcement officials. The terrorists killed indiscriminately, but looked for people with UK and US passports once they were rounding up hostages in the hotels. Among the dead are citizens from the United States, Germany, Japan, Canada, Australia, Italy, Singapore, Thailand, Britain and France.
Mumbai Siege Ends - Video