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Mumbai, India’s luxe hotels targeted in terrorist attacks

Terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, that left at least 78 dead and 200 wounded today (Nov. 26) targeted Americans and Britons at top hotels and tourist venues, according to the Associated Press and other media reports.

In a series of attacks, gunmen swept into the Leopold Cafe, the Ville Parte, the Oberoi Hotel, the Trident, the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, the CST train station’s Victoria terminus, the J.W. Marriott hotel and one other location.

Here’s a map of places where attacks occurred today in Mumbai.

Here are some links to real-time comments and pictures of the attacks:

Twitter on Mumbai attacks

Flickr photos of attacks

Hotel Chatter

Twitter on the Taj Majal Palace Hotel

— Mary Forgione, Los Angeles Times staff writer

[Photo: Smoke emerges from behind a dome on the Taj Hotel in Mumbai, India, on Wednesday. Gautam Singh / Associated Press]

This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 at 2:10 pm by Mary Forgione and is filed under Asia, Global. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a comment, or trackback from your own site.

3 Comments on “Mumbai, India’s luxe hotels targeted in terrorist attacks”

tweetip Says:
November 26th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
#Mumbai ~ 1st Tweets Timeline & Chart … http://tweetip.us/lkphd
daniel freeman Says:
November 27th, 2008 at 6:53 am
i will be travelling to mumbai from china in a weeks time would it be advisable to re-route??
how to cheat in poker Says:
January 19th, 2009 at 4:42 am
I think India government (especially, Sonia govt.) does not have the political or international power to deal with this scenario. India is a soft nation and so can be easily pushed around. Look at the terror attacks one after the another. The latest example is The latest example is Mumbai…:(