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| Subject: WOOHOO: India hangs only surviving gunman of 2008 Mumbai attacks Wed Nov 21, 2012 12:17 am | |
| India hanged Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, the only militant to have survived the 2008 attacks on the financial capital Mumbai, officials said Wednesday, local time.
In August, India's Supreme Court upheld Kasab's death sentence over the attack on a string of targets in Mumbai that killed 166 people. Kasab, 25, was a Pakistani national.
"Ajmal Kasab was executed at 7.30 this morning," Home ministry spokesman K. S. Dhatwalia said.
The execution at Yerawada Prison in Pune, near Mumbai, came just hours after President Pranab Mukherjee rejected a mercy plea by Kasab, who had said he belonged to the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba.
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/20/15321077-india-hangs-only-surviving-gunman-of-2008-mumbai-attacks?lite |
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