Mumbai remembers victims of terror attack that killed 166

Friday, November 27, 2009

COMMANDOS rappelled down a building and Mumbai’s police showed off their new gear yesterday in what was intended as a reassuring display of force, a year after a terror attack across the city killed 166 people.

Activists fear the security upgrades are not enough to prevent a repeat of the attack that laid siege to luxury hotels, turned a train station into a scene of carnage and paralysed India’s commercial heart for 60 hours.

The anniversary of the attack was commemorated across Mumbai with candlelight vigils, prayer meetings, art projects, discussion groups, a blood drive, political speeches, music concerts and soul-searching newspaper articles.

This story appeared in the printed version of the Irish Examiner Friday, November 27, 2009