How the terrorist was captured
What is striking is the bravery of some of the Indian policemen, says Wall street journal.
The sole terrorist captured alive was overpowered by policemen armed with only batons, says the Wall Street Journal.
He was one of two gunmen who fired bullets and hurled grenades at the CST railway station, killing more than 40 people, and then attacked the nearby Cama Hospital, killing two unarmed guards at the entrance and a policeman in a gunfight on the top floor. Then they raced out of the hospital and opened fire on a police SUV, killing Mumbai’s Anti-Terrorist Squad chief Hemant Karkare and two other officers.
The terrorists dumped the officers’ bodies on the ground and sped off in the SUV, pursued by another police vehicle.
At one point, the terrorists ditched the SUV and hijacked a private car – a Skoda, police said. The Wall Street Journal reports:
Two hours later, they ran into a large police roadblock erected on a key road leading out of south Mumbai, at Chowpatty Beach.
Skidding to a halt 30 feet away from the roadblock, the Skoda's driver blinded the police with high beams and, flipping wipers, began spraying fluid on the windshield so that officers couldn't see into the car, said sub-inspector Bhaskar Kadam, one of the officers manning the roadblock.
The three policemen armed with guns drew them. The nine others waved their bamboo sticks. Revving the engine, the car tried to U-turn but got stuck on the median. The man in the passenger seat rolled out and started shooting, killing one officer and wounding another. The surviving baton-wielding officers jumped on him, knocking him unconscious. Policemen with guns shot the driver dead.
This pair's killing spree was over. Police later identified the gunman taken alive as Mr. Qasab, from the Punjab region of Pakistan, who they say is providing details of the plot.
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