Mumbai Attacks: CCTV Footage Released

Rhys Blakely
London Times
Tuesday, Dec 02, 2008

 

Fresh CCTV footage emerged today of the terrorists who killed nearly 200 people in Mumbai as they set about their killing spree.

The images capture the moment that the baby-faced militant Azam Amir Kasab, 21, the only gunman to be captured alive, and an accomplice – named by reports in the Indian media as Abu Ismail Dera Ismail Khan, 25 – opened fire indiscriminately at Mumbai’s main train station, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, one of the world’s busiest.

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The pair, armed with AK47 rifles and grenades and carrying backpacks stuffed with ammunition, targeted a popular family café inside the station. As a hail of bullets burst through the eatery, terrified diners cover their ears and dive behind counters to search for cover.

Staff scramble towards a rear entrance in panic.

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The footage underscores how Mumbai’s police force was hopelessly outgunned and overwhelmed from the attack’s earliest moments.

Two policemen are seen sheltering in an alcove inside the station as the two heavily armed militants stalk an empty concourse that moments before had been crowded with travellers.

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