On 26 November gunmen began a series of co-ordinated and multiple attacks that lasted for three days. They targeted two luxury hotels and other landmarks in the city of Mumbai . All the major attacks began at 2120 local time.
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MUMBAI ATTACKS
The Taj Mahal Palace hotel was attacked by at least seven gunmen at about 2120 on Wednesday 26 November. About 450 people were staying there and a large fire was started.
The damage caused to the Taj Mahal hotel
The gunmen had stormed the Taj Mahal as people sat down for dinner on Wednesday evening, opening fire indiscriminately.
Hundreds of people hid for hours as gunmen fought special commandos.
A number of blazes broke out inside the hotel and flames billowed from the windows, the latest about 0730 local time on Saturday, the culmination of an hour of heavy gunfire and loud explosions, signalling the end of the operation.
It was the longest of the operations to clear the sites of gunmen, and involved more than 100 commandos.
The Taj Mahal is a 105-year-old city landmark at the heart of India's financial capital, popular with foreigners and tourists as well as the city's elite.
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The Oberoi-Trident was seized on Wednesday night at 2120 - at the about same time as the Taj Majal - by heavily armed gunmen who rounded up diners who appeared to be tourists. At least 380 people were in the hotel at the time.
Indian commandos took control of the hotel at 1100 on Friday, freeing nearly 100 people, but 24 bodies were found shortly afterwards in the building.
Two militants, who had thrown hand grenades and exchanged gunfire, were killed, India's National Security Guard director-general said.
The hotel is very popular with business travellers and is located at Nariman Point, the city's main business district, near the Bombay Stock Exchange.
On Wednesday evening at 2120, gunmen, armed with rifles, stormed into the crowded Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus station firing indiscriminately and throwing grenades. At least two gunmen started shooting at passengers waiting for long-distance trains.
India's NDTV has broadcast CCTV from inside CST station on the night of the attacks
Ten people were reported killed and about 30 injured in these attacks.
The station, formerly Victoria Terminus, is one of the busiest railway stations in the country, handling thousands of passengers each day.
It took 10 years to build, starting in 1878, and is famous for its Victorian gothic architecture. It was named a Unesco world heritage site in 2004.
Gunmen seized control of the Nariman House business and residential complex on Wednesday at 2120. Police surrounded the complex, which houses the Jewish Chabad Lubavitch outreach centre and sent in commandos on Friday.
A helicopter drops commandos into the Nariman Jewish centre in Mumbai
They dropped smoke bombs to create confusion, and then several troops abseiled down ropes from a helicopter to secure the roof.
Several hours later police confirmed six people had been killed inside, including a rabbi and his wife. The couple's child had already been evacuated from the building. Two kidnappers were also killed.
Indian security forces did not manage to secure the building until 1800 on Friday. Altogether, eight Israeli or dual Israeli-US citizens were killed and two gunmen.
The centre acts as a centre for prayer and study, attracting many Jewish and Israeli visitors every year.
Gunmen stormed the Cafe Leopold restaurant late on Wednesday and opened fire on diners.
 Witnesses described the 'mayhem' |
The wife of one injured Briton said: "It was mayhem. There were so many casualties. It was carnage."
Eyewitnesses suggest that the attackers looked very young, "like boys".
Cafe Leopold is an old Mumbai institution, popular with foreign tourists and close to the Taj Mahal Palace hotel.
Gunmen attacked the Cama and Albless Hospital on Wednesday, shooting indiscriminately.
One report from the hospital said four militants hijacked a nearby police van and opened fire from inside it, before two were killed and the other two captured by the authorities.
Cama and Albless is a charitable hospital for women and children that was built in the late 1880s by a wealthy businessman.
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