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The horrific attacks in Paris (in pic - R) on Friday night carry sombre echoes of a bloody series of killings in Mumbai (in pic - L) in 2008.

MUMBAI: For residents of Mumbai, the horrific attacks in Paris on Friday night carry sombre echoes of a bloody series of killings in their own city seven years ago.

A total of 166 people were killed in November 2008 when terrorists stormed luxury hotels, the main railway station, a Jewish centre and other sites in the city.

"It makes me angry the pictures, the videos and the social media chats make me relive the horror of that night even more graphically," said Sourav Mishra, who was injured in the November 26 attacks.


Mr Mishra was enjoying a beer with his friends at Leopold Cafe, a popular tourist haunt in the historic district of Colaba, when two gunmen burst in.

"One second I was drinking and chatting with my friends... the next second we had bullets whizzing past killing fellow diners," he said.

The coordinated spate of attacks began at around 10:30 pm when gunmen armed with powerful assault rifles and grenades seized two five-star hotels, the Taj Mahal and the Oberoi Trident, taking hostages.

Military commandos later stormed the Taj and began a battle with terrorists that transformed the city into a war zone for 60 hours as live television footage of the shootout was beamed around the world.

Fifty-two people died at the Taj Mahal hotel while another 38 died at the Oberoi Trident.

A 20-minute killing spree at Mumbai's main railway station, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, left around 80 people dead.

"It had a psychological effect on each and every 'Mumbaikar'. The entire city was under siege for three days," said Manoj Singh, 39, who was working at a television station in Mumbai at the time.

"This is French media, so they do not show all the images. But I could see the pictures they are not showing in my mind," he told news agency AFP.

- 'Horrifying' memories -

Nirmala Ponnudurai, who had to have a piece of bullet shrapnel removed from her head after being shot at the station, said that the events in Paris "bring back all the memories".

"Even after the years have passed by it's not an easy situation to deal with," she told AFP.

Chintan Sakariya, who witnessed the attack on Nariman House, a Jewish Community Centre, said "reading about the Paris attacks on Saturday morning had given him "goosebumps".

"The memories are fresh and unforgettable. They are horrifying," he told AFP.

The Paris attacks have echoes of the Mumbai atrocity not just in their co-ordination but in their choosing of "soft targets", according to terror analysts.

"There are similarities because of the targeting of a restaurant, a crowded place and in terms of targeting a prominent city," Sameer Patil, a terrorism and security expert in Mumbai told AFP.

While it took Mumbai three days to bring the city under control, "because of the law enforcement machinery that Paris has and the experience of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in January" French special ops were able to quickly mobilise a response, he said.

Vappala Balachandran, former deputy head of India's foreign intelligence agency, said while the security services had learnt from the 2008 Mumabi attacks, the Paris atrocities showed how difficult they were to prevent.

"Even the better protected countries and cities are not able to stop the subversion from within and the fact that terrorists are constantly adapting," he told AFP.

Paris Terror Attacks Evoke Dark Memories for Mumbai
 
there are a lot of parallels with the Mumbai attacks, coordinated jihad on multiple soft target locations in a major city, similar huge death toll.
 
The resemblance is uncanny.
 
Karma is a bitch,RIP to the victim of idiotic french policies.
 
How come striking the scums of ISIS is a stupid policy ?
Is this kind of terrorism so unexpected in France?When your country protect the right of public medias to insult muslims,when your country follow the US to fvck up middle east.You expect 10% of french will silently bare that?ISIL is the creation of idiotic western policies.
 
French need to liquidate the ghettoes,these scum are being sheltered there before making attacks.USA is way more difficult to do anything because they don't allow ghettoes.
They need to emulate chinese and russians in suppressing terror.
 
IMO Mumbai was avenged with brute force more or less let's see how france avenge paris.

We do not have power to ensure that the water pipe lines won't be exploded or that the trees won't be uprooted. We do not have the power to prevent the murders of orchard workers or families while they are asleep, but we have the power to set a high price for our blood, a price which would be too high for the Arab communities, the Arab armies and the Arab governments to bear

David Ben-Gurion
 
He meant you killed lybian people and also iraqi and afghanistan and then Karma struck you like a woman in paris

What do you mean by "Iraqi" ? Did we participate in Iraq war ? Our forces are giving CAS to the Iraqi forces and the Kurdish forces. Afghanistan ? We didn't obliterate entire villages,even a Taliban in an interview said "The French soldiers are brave,they don't shoot everywhere and target civilians,like the Afghan army/Police"........
Libya was a stupid intervention,but these savages are fighting themselves instead of uniting and then blame the west for their failure.

Is this kind of terrorism so unexpected in France?When your country protect the right of public medias to insult muslims,when your country follow the US to fvck up middle east.You expect 10% of french will silently bare that?

Ok,so in what sh*thole you kill people because of some drawings ? If that was the case for everything,there will be a civil war ongoing.
 
Karma is a bitch,RIP to the victim of idiotic french policies.
yes , indeed
Shows why Americans bring a sledgehammer to the jihadi fight. If not then scums get to justify the terrorist act. If this had happened in America, instead of justifying the attack you'd be pissing in your pants now
 
What do you mean by "Iraqi" ? Did we participate in Iraq war ? Our forces are giving CAS to the Iraqi forces and the Kurdish forces. Afghanistan ? We didn't obliterate entire villages,even a Taliban in an interview said "The French soldiers are brave,they don't shoot everywhere and target civilians,like the Afghan army/Police"........
Libya was a stupid intervention,but these savages are fighting themselves instead of uniting and then blame the west for their failure.



Ok,so in what sh*thole you kill people because of some drawings ? If that was the case for everything,there will be a civil war ongoing.
Killing innocent people is defintely evil.But it's your government's foolish policies attract the demons to your country.This is called karma.
 
there are a lot of parallels with the Mumbai attacks, coordinated jihad on multiple soft target locations in a major city, similar huge death toll.

no proofs yet that muslims responsible 4 paris attacks and u indians get ur panties tied 2 a twist. in lebanon 43 people was killed in bomb blast. now u indians not writing long story saying how ur memories r haunting u or how it reminds u of time when u support insurgency in pakistan where bombs was going off until our army moved in 2 kill rats who u so openly support
 

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