Road-blocks were set in front of major venues of the Mumbai terror attacks with crowds cramming around on Saturday, when the final encounter ended.
On Saturday, in front of the square of the iconic Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai, the most severely damaged building in the attack, kept drawing crowds to see and take pictures of it.
S. Bhamth Bhushan, who works for a local bank, especially took his 11-year-old daughter to view the hotel after the attack.
"It's really beautiful, but now, everyone feel upset about it," he said that he felt pity for the awesome hotel.
Most people on the square looked sad and mournful when looking at the world culture heritage building.
A local reporter covering news about the attack told Xinhua that a friend of him was injured during the accident and admitted to the hospital and that most people felt helpless for the disaster.
India's longest terror nightmare that lasted for almost 59 hours ended Saturday as commandos from the National Security Guard(NSG), the Indian Army and the Indian Navy eliminated three militants who had taken over the hotel on Saturday.
Mumbai disaster authorities put the death toll to 195 and the injured 295, but the toll is rising as more bodies were collected from the attacked places.
NSG head J.K. Dutt told the reporters that they had been able to win the battle and did the job assigned to them.
Some people from the crowd cheered and applauded after hearing about the above declaration made just in front of the Taj Mahal hotel.
Vehicles were not allowed to get close to Oberoi Trident Hotel and Nariman House where road blocks were set up with police guarding around.
At about 6:30 p.m. local time, representatives from the Indian Police Force went to inspect the Oberoi Trident Hotel, where a lot of people gathered around taking about the street corner heavily ruined by a grenade explosion.
Just aside the corner was a gas station which was fortunately without a trace of damage.
"Three of my staff were there during the explosion and they were too sacred to come for work today," said the owner of the gas station Ryan Singh.
Singh told reporters that it was very luck for his premise of not being hit and he expected his staff to take a few days to recover from the shock.
Saturday was the culmination of a four-day anti-militant operation that began Wednesday evening when several armed men, probably two dozen and armed with grenades and automatic rifles, sneaked into the city by boat.
A total of 25 explosions, small and big, were heard in the hotel all through Friday, and gunfire rattled the hotel and fires frequently erupted from different rooms as reported.
Source: Xinhua
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