Mumbai attacks anniversary draws solemn tributes

AFP, 26TH NOVEMBER, 2018India marked the 10th anniversary of the Mumbai terror attacks Monday with ceremonies at sites across the city that became battlegrounds in the wave of violence that killed scores and dealt a critical blow to relations with neighbouring Pakistan.

Armed with AK-47 assault rifles and hand grenades, 10 Islamic militants killed 166 people and injured hundreds more in a three-day rampage through India’s financial capital which started on Wednesday November 26, 2008.

A decade on, the United States offered a new $5 million reward for the capture of the remaining attackers and called on Islamabad to cooperate with the hunt for the planners of the assault.

The attackers belonged to Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-taiba (LET).

At a solemn ceremony Mumbai’s police remembered more than a dozen officers and commandos killed in the operation against the militants.

Relatives of the victims and local dignitaries laid wreaths and sprinkled rose petals at a police memorial honouring the dead while the force’s brass band played the “Last Post”.