Mumbai Terror: Five terrorists killed, one captured

Security forces today prepared to launch an assault to flush out terrorists from two luxury hotels - Taj and Trident - where a couple of 100 people are believed to be either held hostage or trapped in the most audacious terror attacks that have claimed over 100 lives and left over 300 injured in India's financial capital
Latest reports indicate that terrorists, about 10-12 in number in Trident, formerly Oberoi, alone, have made some ransom demands but Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister R R Patil said no demands have come from them.

He said five of the dozen terrorists in Trident have been killed, while one has been captured and was being interrogated.

Claiming to have some "vital leads", the minister expressed confidence of breakthrough soon.

An unspecified number of foreigners, including Americans, Israelis and Canadians are believed to be among those trapped in the two hotels and in Nariman House, a residential complex with an old Jewish prayer hall, where also a hostage situation prevailed.

As the day broke, gunbattles raged between terrorists, believed to have come in a boat to the Gateway of India, opposite Taj hotel, and commandoes and fresh explosions rocked the two hotels after the night of terror targeting ten places.

Source: BS

India Won Again...

India won the another one against England in on going series It's Now 5 - 0 Two More to go...

Score Board...
England:

Ravi Bopara c Yuvraj b Zaheer 24

Alistair Cook c Tendulkar b Zaheer 11

Kevin Pietersen not out 111

Paul Collingwood c Zaheer b Harbhajan 40

Andrew Flintoff c Tendulkar b Ishant 0

Owais Shah not out 66

Extras (lb 14, w 4) 18

Total (for four wickets in 50 overs) 270

Fall of wickets: 1-33 (Cook, 5.5 overs), 2-68 (Bopara, 9.5), 3-157 (Collingwood, 29.6), 4-158 (Flintoff, 30.4)

Bowling:

Irfan Pathan 10 1 57 0

Zaheer Khan 10 1 60 2 (3w)

Ishant Sharma 10 0 54 1

Harbhajan Singh 10 0 47 1 (1w)

Yuvraj Singh 10 0 38 0

India:

Virender Sehwag lbw b Broad 91

Sachin Tendulkar b Harmison 50

Yuvraj Singh c & b Bopara 6

Mahendra Singh Dhoni lbw b Swann 50

Suresh Raina not out 53

Rohit Sharma not out 8

Extras (lb 5, w 8, nb 2) 15

Total (for four wickets in 43.4 overs) 273

Fall of wickets 1-136 (Tendulkar, 19.5 overs), 2-156 (Yuvraj Singh, 22.6), 3-156 (Sehwag, 23.1), 4-250 (Dhoni, 40.6)

Bowling:

Steve Harmison 10 1 50 1 (2w)

Stuart Broad 8.4 0 54 1 (2w)

Andrew Flintoff 9 0 43 0

Samit Patel 3 0 23 0 (1w)

Graeme Swann 7 0 56 1 (2w)

Ravi Bopara 6 1 42 1 (1nb, 1w)

Toss: India, chose to field first

Man of the Match: Virender Sehwag

Umpires: Daryl Harper (Australia) and Ameish Saheba (India)

TV umpire: S.K. Tarapore (India)

Match Referee: Roshan Mahanama (Sri Lanka)