Ceremonies mark the 10th anniversary of Mumbai attacks
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Channel: AP Archive · 2018 · News & Politics
(26 Nov 2018) As Mumbai marked the 10th anniversary of the attacks that killed 166 in India's financial capital on Monday, the United States made a new reward offer for information on the 2008 siege. The Pakistani gunmen who waged the attack were killed or captured. But US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday that those who planned the attack had not been convicted. He called on Pakistan to implement sanctions against those responsible and said the US was offering a new 5 million US dollar reward and was committed to seeing those responsible face justice. In Mumbai, the Chief Minister of Maharashtra and part of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, laid a wreath at the Police Memorial which was constructed to honour the policemen who were killed in the attack. Divya Vijay Salaskar, whose father was killed during the attack, said though her family had come a long way, "the pain is very much the same." On Nov. 26, 2008, gunmen staged coordinated attacks in the heart of Mumbai. They targeted two luxury hotels, a Jewish centre, a tourist restaurant and a crowded train station in three days of carnage. Shyam Bihari Paswan, who owns a small shop inside the station and was shot in the shoulder during the attack, said he has stopped watching action movies because the scripted gunfire reminds him of the attack. India blamed the attack on the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, throwing relations between the nuclear-armed neighbours into a tailspin. Indian officials accused Pakistan's intelligence agency of working with the militant group to mastermind the attack — an allegation Islamabad denied. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/3f3b11699c5c874e7dcdb3b8b3284e57
