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Mumbai Attacks, the Aftermath - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
Searching for Survivors, Hearing Stories | 12:07 p.m. The siege is over. Now comes the accounting and the recounting.
Security officers are combing the Taj Mahal hotel for survivors, bodies and clues at the scene of the last battle, which ended Saturday by mid-morning in Mumbai, according to the head of the elite National Security Guard, J. K. Dutt. Three terrorists, he said, had been killed inside. One commando leader said earlier that his team had come across a single room in the Taj containing a dozen corpses or more.
Israels foreign ministry confirmed that eight Israelis had died in the attacks, seven of whom were inside the Nariman House, home to Mumbais Chabad-Lubavitch movement.
Jeremy Kahn, a contributor for our sister newspaper, The International Herald Tribune, filed this dispatch of the scene in Mumbai after the end of the siege, with accounts of some witnesses of the attacks:
As word came that the siege at the Taj Mahal hotel was over today, many Mumbai natives came into the streets and walked down to the Gate of India, which is located adjacent to the Taj, to look at the damage. There was palpable feeling of relief among residents in the blocks immediately around the Taj. Many Indians asked to pose for photographs with Indian Army soldiers and gave high fives to police officers.
In an interview recounting his experience, Nisar Suttar, who works as a part-time guide for tourists in the Colaba section of Mumbai, said that he was standing just outside Leopolds Cafe at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, when two young men entered the cafe, one carrying a heavy bag. They approached the counter and seemed to order food, Mr. Suttar said. Then, five minutes later, they pulled out automatic rifles and began shooting at the diners before running out of the cafe.
Reaching a nearby corner, Mr. Suttar said, he saw the two gunmen open fire down the street. He said one of the gunmen seemed to be talking on a mobile phone even as he used his other hand to fire off rounds. The men then ran off down a side street and Mr. Suttar said he and three other bystanders went to help a bloodied man who was lying on the ground just outside Leopolds. They said they put the man in a taxi and asked the driver to take the injured man to a hospital. Mr. Suttar said unarmed police officers in the area ran off while the shooting was going on, but soon returned to try to help victims within Leopolds.
Two musicians who had been working at the Oberoi hotel said in interviews that they were allowed to return Saturday afternoon along with guests to pick up their luggage. Pramod Pandit, 45, said that he was a tabla player. His partner, Jamil Ali Khan, 54, played sitar. Mr. Pandit said that he and Mr. Khan had been playing background music on a small stage at the Khandahar restaurant on the second floor of the Oberoi hotel, when at approximately 9:40 p.m. Wednesday he heard gunfire from the lobby, one floor below. People in the restaurant began to panic.
Within two minutes, he said, one of the gunmen entered the restaurant and began shooting at the diners. He said he saw one man fall to the ground, covered in blood. He later learned that one of his managers at the Oberoi had been killed as well. He and Mr. Khan raced to an emergency exit along with many of the other diners and ran down the stairs, which eventually took them outside. He said he was not permitted back into the Kandahar restaurant to pick up his instrument; someone from the hotel staff brought it down to him. The staff member told him the restaurant was badly damaged and might not be able to open again for many months.
Stories are emerging worldwide of survival and courage, and how, in the case of a Chicago couple, text messaging helped keep them informed before their rescue.
Carole and Benjamin Mackoff were concluding a three-week trip with Tauck Tours, staying at the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower when shots rang out. They hid in their room, and their son, Jonathan Mackoff, a chiropractor in Chicago, gave United States consulate officials their cell phone number and room number. According to The Chicago Tribune, Jonathan kept text messaging his parents throughout the ordeal, until Indian commandos knocked on the door of his parents room with a special password that they received on the phone.
Tauck Tours, according to a news release issued by the company, had a group of 26 guests and three Tauck tour directors concluding the November 10th departure of our A Portrait Of India tour at the Taj Mahal on the day the attacks began:
Eight of those guests, accompanied by one tour director, had left the hotel for the airport prior to the attack. All are safe.
We deeply regret having to confirm that one Tauck guest, a 71-year-old resident of Sydney, Australia, lost his life in the attack.
Our 17 remaining guests and the two remaining tour directors are all safe. All have left Mumbai and have either arrived home or are en route.
From the United Kingdom:
Lynne and Ken Shaw of Wales told the BBC of hiding under tables while the attackers stormed a restaurant across the hall from where they were eating in the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel. In the interview, Mrs. Shaw said that little things that night just timing saved our lives.
Restaurant workers led them and others through a warren of hallways into a conference room, where the group hid for hours. They were being led out in groups of six when all of a sudden gunfire broke out in the corridor and they had executed a six-year-old in front of his parent, Mrs. Shaw said. My life was saved because as I was running I stumbled and I think that really saved me as I fell back into the room. The next morning men with guns burst into the room where they were hiding and ordered everyone out. At that stage I thought this is the end, Mrs. Shaw said, but the men turned out to be Indian Army personnel.
Will Pike and Kelly Doyle, from Camden in North London, told The Guardian of knotting towels, bedsheets and curtains together to escape from their room in the Taj.
They had fled to their room after hearing gunfire and explosions, and sat for hours listening to gunshots come closer and closer. After they had armed themselves with knives and forks and making a plan to surprise any attacker, their room began to fill with smoke. Mr. Pike went first on the 60-foot climb down the makeshift rope.
But clearly I never did my boy scout knot badge because my knots were rubbish, he said. The knots came undone and he fell, breaking three vertabrae, both arms and his pelvis. Shortly afterward, firefighters rescued Ms. Doyle with a hydraulic lift. Mr. Pike remains in a Mumbai hospital in intensive care.
Mumbai Attacks, the Aftermath - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
Searching for Survivors, Hearing Stories | 12:07 p.m. The siege is over. Now comes the accounting and the recounting.
Security officers are combing the Taj Mahal hotel for survivors, bodies and clues at the scene of the last battle, which ended Saturday by mid-morning in Mumbai, according to the head of the elite National Security Guard, J. K. Dutt. Three terrorists, he said, had been killed inside. One commando leader said earlier that his team had come across a single room in the Taj containing a dozen corpses or more.
Israels foreign ministry confirmed that eight Israelis had died in the attacks, seven of whom were inside the Nariman House, home to Mumbais Chabad-Lubavitch movement.
Jeremy Kahn, a contributor for our sister newspaper, The International Herald Tribune, filed this dispatch of the scene in Mumbai after the end of the siege, with accounts of some witnesses of the attacks:
As word came that the siege at the Taj Mahal hotel was over today, many Mumbai natives came into the streets and walked down to the Gate of India, which is located adjacent to the Taj, to look at the damage. There was palpable feeling of relief among residents in the blocks immediately around the Taj. Many Indians asked to pose for photographs with Indian Army soldiers and gave high fives to police officers.
In an interview recounting his experience, Nisar Suttar, who works as a part-time guide for tourists in the Colaba section of Mumbai, said that he was standing just outside Leopolds Cafe at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, when two young men entered the cafe, one carrying a heavy bag. They approached the counter and seemed to order food, Mr. Suttar said. Then, five minutes later, they pulled out automatic rifles and began shooting at the diners before running out of the cafe.
Reaching a nearby corner, Mr. Suttar said, he saw the two gunmen open fire down the street. He said one of the gunmen seemed to be talking on a mobile phone even as he used his other hand to fire off rounds. The men then ran off down a side street and Mr. Suttar said he and three other bystanders went to help a bloodied man who was lying on the ground just outside Leopolds. They said they put the man in a taxi and asked the driver to take the injured man to a hospital. Mr. Suttar said unarmed police officers in the area ran off while the shooting was going on, but soon returned to try to help victims within Leopolds.
Two musicians who had been working at the Oberoi hotel said in interviews that they were allowed to return Saturday afternoon along with guests to pick up their luggage. Pramod Pandit, 45, said that he was a tabla player. His partner, Jamil Ali Khan, 54, played sitar. Mr. Pandit said that he and Mr. Khan had been playing background music on a small stage at the Khandahar restaurant on the second floor of the Oberoi hotel, when at approximately 9:40 p.m. Wednesday he heard gunfire from the lobby, one floor below. People in the restaurant began to panic.
Within two minutes, he said, one of the gunmen entered the restaurant and began shooting at the diners. He said he saw one man fall to the ground, covered in blood. He later learned that one of his managers at the Oberoi had been killed as well. He and Mr. Khan raced to an emergency exit along with many of the other diners and ran down the stairs, which eventually took them outside. He said he was not permitted back into the Kandahar restaurant to pick up his instrument; someone from the hotel staff brought it down to him. The staff member told him the restaurant was badly damaged and might not be able to open again for many months.
Stories are emerging worldwide of survival and courage, and how, in the case of a Chicago couple, text messaging helped keep them informed before their rescue.
Carole and Benjamin Mackoff were concluding a three-week trip with Tauck Tours, staying at the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower when shots rang out. They hid in their room, and their son, Jonathan Mackoff, a chiropractor in Chicago, gave United States consulate officials their cell phone number and room number. According to The Chicago Tribune, Jonathan kept text messaging his parents throughout the ordeal, until Indian commandos knocked on the door of his parents room with a special password that they received on the phone.
Tauck Tours, according to a news release issued by the company, had a group of 26 guests and three Tauck tour directors concluding the November 10th departure of our A Portrait Of India tour at the Taj Mahal on the day the attacks began:
Eight of those guests, accompanied by one tour director, had left the hotel for the airport prior to the attack. All are safe.
We deeply regret having to confirm that one Tauck guest, a 71-year-old resident of Sydney, Australia, lost his life in the attack.
Our 17 remaining guests and the two remaining tour directors are all safe. All have left Mumbai and have either arrived home or are en route.
From the United Kingdom:
Lynne and Ken Shaw of Wales told the BBC of hiding under tables while the attackers stormed a restaurant across the hall from where they were eating in the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel. In the interview, Mrs. Shaw said that little things that night just timing saved our lives.
Restaurant workers led them and others through a warren of hallways into a conference room, where the group hid for hours. They were being led out in groups of six when all of a sudden gunfire broke out in the corridor and they had executed a six-year-old in front of his parent, Mrs. Shaw said. My life was saved because as I was running I stumbled and I think that really saved me as I fell back into the room. The next morning men with guns burst into the room where they were hiding and ordered everyone out. At that stage I thought this is the end, Mrs. Shaw said, but the men turned out to be Indian Army personnel.
Will Pike and Kelly Doyle, from Camden in North London, told The Guardian of knotting towels, bedsheets and curtains together to escape from their room in the Taj.
They had fled to their room after hearing gunfire and explosions, and sat for hours listening to gunshots come closer and closer. After they had armed themselves with knives and forks and making a plan to surprise any attacker, their room began to fill with smoke. Mr. Pike went first on the 60-foot climb down the makeshift rope.
But clearly I never did my boy scout knot badge because my knots were rubbish, he said. The knots came undone and he fell, breaking three vertabrae, both arms and his pelvis. Shortly afterward, firefighters rescued Ms. Doyle with a hydraulic lift. Mr. Pike remains in a Mumbai hospital in intensive care.
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