By NNN-PTI,
Mumbai : The militants, who entered into Mumbai by boats to carry out probably the worst terror attack on India, began their killing spree in the high seas where they killed five fishermen who’re “missing” since last week.
The militants killed and thrown off-board four members of Indian fishing trawler ‘Kuber’ soon after they had hijacked it, while the fifth person, identified as Balwant Tandel, was beheaded as the vessel neared the Mumbai shores, sources said.
In fact, the investigators are now corroborating the information they gathered with that of the version of the arrested Lashker-e-Taiba militant Ajmal Amin Kamal.
So far, it has emerged that Kamal, along with another 11 Lashker cadres, had sailed off the Karachi port city in a merchant vessel and got down at ten nautical miles in Indian waters.
Kamal, who had been maintaining that they had used the fibre glass boats to reach Mumbai on Wednesday night, has now confessed that they also used a fishing trawler, which was reported to be “missing” after rough weather on Nov 18.
And after killing the five crew members, the militants docked the vessel at Sasool area and began their massacre with clear cut instructions from across the border that “no mercy needs to be shown”.
Giving an insight into the Lashker’s seas-warfare, he is said to have claimed that, along with other LeT operatives, they were trained in marine commando techniques on Mangla Dam, a reservoir stretching between Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK) to Punjab in Pakistan.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister R R Patil said terrorists who attacked the city were receiving instructions from outside the country on phone.
“We have found out that they had a superior and instructions were being given from outside the country,” he told reporters.
When asked whether the terrorists were making calls to Pakistan, Patil said, “It’s true.”
Police had Friday said that a satellite phone had been found in the rubber craft found in south Mumbai, which terrorists are suspected to have used to land in Mumbai.
A cellphone was found near the Taj by the fire officials. The officials said a terrorist dropped it while trying to lob a grenade at them.
Hours after the last three terrorists were eliminated in Taj Hotel, Maharashtra Director General of Police A N Roy said his force would do whatever it could to catch the perpetrators of the terror strikes in Mumbai.
“We have knocked down many and we will catch the rest,” Roy said when asked about the strategies being taken to arrest the people behind the terror acts in the metropolis.
The DGP said security along the coastline was not adequate and much needed to be done to make it foolproof.
“Coastal security has been a matter of great concern. Government has been conscious about this. Still, perhaps, we have not been able to meet the challenges. We definitely need to improve. That is an area which is a matter of great concern,” he said.