
The terrorist attacks in Mumbai last month were carried out by ten gunmen who were a part of a 30-member team. Photo by BGNES
The police in the Indian city of Mumbai announced Tuesday that the ten terrorists who wrought havoc there last month were part of a 30-member team for suicide missions, the International Herald Tribune reported.
The Indian police do not know where the other twenty members of the suicide team of the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Tayyiba were but they believe they were not in India.
The deputy commissioner of the Mumbai Police Deven Bharti is quoted as saying that the information about the 30-member terrorist squad came from the only surviving attacker, Muhammad Ajmal Kasab, who was arrested during the attacks. The 30 recruits were provided with highly specialized training, including marine combat skills.
The Indian police also provided more names and photographs of the Mumbai attackers on Tuesday, and supplied new details of the weaponry and communications and navigation equipment they used during the assault.
Rakesh Maria, Mumbai's joint police commissioner, announced that each attacker carried a dozen grenades, a 9-millimeter handgun with two 18-round clips and an AK-47 with seven to nine 30-round magazines, and more than 100 rounds of loose ammunition.
To navigate to Mumbai by sea and to find some targets, the terrorists used Global Positioning System handsets. Each attacker also carried a cellphone to communicate with his handlers.
The Mumbai attacks at the end of November left 162 people dead, and more than 300 wounded.