Mumbai Terror
A timeline of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai that left more than 170 people dead (Times are local in Mumbai).
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9:20 p.m.
Shooting starts at Chhatrapati Shivaji rail station, one of the world's busiest, handling thousands of passengers each day.
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Within the hour, other attacks occur at four other locations: the Nariman House, home of the ultra-orthodox Jewish outreach group Chabad Lubavitch; Leopold's restaurant, a landmark popular with foreigners; the Oberoi hotel, a five-star landmark; the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower hotel, a landmark of Mumbai luxury since 1903, and a favorite watering hole of the city's elite.
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10:50 p.m.
Shooting breaks out near Times of India newspaper offices in southern part of the city, quickly followed by attacks near the Bombay Municipal Corporation, the civic body that governs Mumbai, and the Cama hospital in southern Mumbai and the GT hospital in the city center.
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Just after midnight gunman attack the Vidhan Sabha, the legislative assembly, the lower house of state legislature in India.
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3 a.m.
Large fire breaks out at the Taj Mahal hotel and an hour later authorities begin escorting people out of the Taj Mahal hotel.
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9:15 a.m.
Indian security forces are brought in to try to retake the Taj Mahal hotel and the Oberoi hotel.
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10:30 a.m.
Members of the National Security Guard start doing room-to-room searches at the Taj Mahal hotel and within the hour surround the Nariman House and local media shows people being rescued from the Oberoi hotel.
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh blames militant groups
based in India's neighbors, which usually means Pakistan.
Pakistan condemns the attacks and promises full
cooperation in fighting terrorism.
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Elite Black Cat commandos kill the last four of the gunmen after days of room-to-room battling inside the Taj Mahal hotel.
Of the at least 172 people killed, 19 were foreigners,
including businessmen and tourists. Among them were were six Americans. The dead also included Germans, Canadians, Israelis and nationals from Britain, Italy, Mexico, Japan, China, Thailand, Australia, Singapore and Mexico.
Nine gunmen and 20 police and soldiers are also killed. A 10th militant is caught alive.
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India demands that Pakistan take "strong action" against those behind the deadly Mumbai attacks as Washington pressured Islamabad to cooperate with the investigation.
The only known surviving attacker told police that his group trained for months in camps operated by a banned Pakistani militant group, learning close-combat techniques, explosives training and other tactics for their three-day siege.
Teams from the FBI and Britain's Scotland Yard met with top Indian police as they prepared to help collect evidence.
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A senior Bush administration official said the U.S. warned India before last week's brutal attacks in Mumbai that terrorists appeared to be plotting a mostly waterborne assault on its financial capital.
A senior U.S. State Department official said there is reason to suspect that the attacks were the work of a group at least partly based in Pakistan. The official did not detail the evidence, and did not single out any one terror organization as suspect.
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India's defense minister warned military chiefs to be prepared for terror attacks from the air and the sea in the wake of bungled response to the attacks.
Police found explosives hidden in a bag in Mumbai's main train station, which they said were left over from last week's attacks. The bomb squad defused the two 8-pound bombs.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited New Delhi and called for full cooperation from Pakistan in a bid to ease tensions in the region after the attacks.
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Credits:
CBS/AP
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