Mumbai on high alert after terror attack

Mumbai, Nov 26: Indiscriminate firing and blasts in different parts of South Mumbai left 15 people dead on Wednesday night. Police sources are putting down the attacks as an act of terror. All the blasts have taken place in the vicnity of posh hotels.

The firing has taken places at the Chattrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) railways station, outside Café Leopold in Colaba, Nariman point and outside the Taj and the Tridient, formely Oberoi hotel. Indiscriminate firing was reported from the Taj hotel, with sources saying that 4 terrorists could be holed up inside.

Ten people have been killed in firing at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) station, say police.

Police sources said two groups of terrorists came to CST area with one of them entering the station and another setting off grenades outside Metro cinema near the station.

Armed with AK-47 rifles and grenades, the terrorists entered the passenger hall of crowded Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) railway station and opened fire and threw a grenade killing two to three persons, Mumbai General Railway Police Commissioner A K Sharma said. He did not give details.

Two explosions also went off outside CST and eyewitnesses reported they heard gunshots outside the railway station building.