7/11: Mumbai Gets Back On It's Feet As Death Toll Crosses 200
Ankit Gupta - All Headline News Staff Writer Mumbai, India (AHN) - Millions of commuters in Mumbai, returned back to work, after the serial bombings killed over 200 and injured more than 800 people. The Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the country would not kneel to terrorism. The investigators have meanwhile prepared sketches of suspected terrorists who were seen at some of the sites of the serial blasts. Suspicion fell on Pakistan-based militants fighting Indian rule in Kashmir. The attacks which seem to have been aimed at the heart of India's financial capital, but but just hours later the city's residents were back at work and the stock market was steady. Vowing that "nothing would break India's resolve" the Prime Minister in his address to the nation said "This is living proof of our contempt for terrorism,no one can make India kneel. No one can come in the path of our progress. We will win this war on terror." The serial bombings seem to have been inspired by the previous attacks in Madrid and London. Meanwhile, even as the world came together to condemn the bombings, relatives and friends of victims were still pouring over survivors' lists at city hospitals or trying to identify charred and mutilated corpses. Others were inside the wards, tending to the injured lying on blood-soaked beds, reported Press Trust of India sources.
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