Mumbai remembers 26/11 victims with flowers, tears
mumbai — Marking the 12th anniversary of the dastardly terror strikes on November 26, 2008, Mumbai paid homage to the martyrs and victims felled by bullets and bravehearts who helped save and secure the city from the assault by 10 Pakistani terrorists.
Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari and Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray led the state by solemnly laying wreaths at the new Martyrs’ Memorial erected inside the Mumbai Police Commissionerate premises near Crawford Market in south Mumbai.
A large number of Police personnel also paid homage to their colleagues who had been martyred in the terror attacks carried out at key locations in south Mumbai, with a special thought for Tukaram G. Omble, who sacrificed his life in nabbing the sole terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab alive early on November 27, 2008.
Later, the relatives of the martyrs and several brave-hearts also turned up to pay homage to their
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departed kin as the governor, chief minister and other top officials waited and acknowledged them with folded hands.
Other in memoriams were held at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus, Hotel Taj Mahal Palace, Hotel Oberoi, the Chabad House, Cama Hospital, and the Leopold Cafe, all among the sites brutally targeted by the attackers who left a total 166 dead and over 300 injured. —