Mumbai carnage first, and Aussie as collateral damage second, and the world as usual can only watch and wonder, third, and last?
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Terrorist attack on Mumbai kills up to 80 as gunmen storm hotels, take hostages
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November 27, 2008 08:31am
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Westerners are reportedly being held hostage in Mumbai after gunmen killed 80 people.
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Up to 80 dead in terror attack on Mumbai
Gunmen open fire in western hotels
Hostages taken, two Australians injured
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A GROUP of Australians are hiding in a restaurant in Mumbai in India after a series of gun and bomb attacks against Westerners killed as many as 80 people.
Reports of the death toll vary, but one news agency says 80 people have died while Indian television stations report the toll to be at least 40.
They have reported hostages have been taken at the Taj and Oberoi hotels. The gunmen are holed up inside and are locked in a gun battle with police.
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said two Australians had been injured.
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A little-known group called the "Deccan Mujahedeen" has claimed responsibility.
"An encounter is going on at the two hotels, the situation is grave," Vilasrao Deshmukh, the chief minister told CNN-IBN TV. "Our men are on the job."
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Sandra Dsouza of Australia Nine Australians are reported to be hiding in a restaurant to stay amid the "chaos" in the city.
"I look out onto the street and all I can see is ambulances and police," Australian tourist Isaac Zalme said on Channel 9 this morning.
"We will hang out here (at the restaurant) for as long as possible. It’s a waiting game, we will wait and see what happens.
"There were people driving around in a cop car shooting people," he said.
Other Australian tourists were among those who had to flee the attackers when they struck overnight, the Herald-Sun reported.
There was also an attack on the Cafe Leopold, perhaps the most famous restaurant and hang-out for tourists in the city, and at hospitals and railway stations.
"I guess they were after foreigners, because they were asking for British or American passports," said Rakesh Patel, a British witness who was staying at the Taj hotel on business. "They had bombs.
"They came from the restaurant and took us up the stairs," he told the NDTV news channel, smoke stains all over his face. "Young boys, maybe 20 years old, 25 years old."
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and that's a mild order from Desi to my EsteemedReaders so you get a badder udersatnding of what's happening that's maddening beyond your neighbourhood and you realise the follies of man in India, Austraia,Malaysia, et cetera, et cetera bind us all in a knot so tight we can not fathem WHY we can't disentangle ourselves. Maybe like others worldwide, Malaysians can only lament and sigh: Why, Why, WHY?
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