The first pair entered the bustling CST railway station. Without warning, they opened fire with AK-47s and threw grenades into crowded waiting rooms and platforms. Within minutes, over 50 people were dead. The gunmen moved with tactical precision, reloading calmly as passengers fled. This was not a suicide bombing; it was a military-style assault on civilians.
At around 9:30 pm on November 26, 2008, the terrorists began their attacks, firing indiscriminately at people in the targeted locations. The first reports of the attacks came in from the CST, where a group of terrorists opened fire on commuters, killing dozens of people. Similar attacks were reported from the Leopold Cafe, where two terrorists fired on customers and staff, killing 10 people. the attacks of 26 11
The attacks were not a single explosion but a coordinated series of strikes across South Mumbai. At approximately , ten men arrived by rubber dinghies near the Apollo Bunder area, having sailed from Karachi, Pakistan. They split into five pairs, each targeting a specific landmark. The first pair entered the bustling CST railway station
On November 26, 2008, the city of Mumbai, India was subjected to a coordinated terrorist attack that shook the very foundations of the country. The attacks, which lasted for four days, left 166 people dead and over 300 injured. The world was horrified by the sheer brutality and audacity of the strikes, which targeted some of the city's most iconic and populous locations. The gunmen moved with tactical precision, reloading calmly
The 26/11 attacks, also known as the 2008 Mumbai attacks, were a series of 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks that lasted four days across Mumbai, India. Carried out by ten members of the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the assault killed 166 people and injured over 300, leaving a permanent scar on the nation's psyche. The Siege Timeline (November 26–29, 2008)
Several other people, including Hafiz Saeed and several members of the Lashkar-e-Taiba outfit, were charged and convicted in absentia. Saeed, who was designated as a global terrorist by the United Nations, was sentenced to 10 years in prison by a Pakistani court in 2019.