Mumbai: Over the last two days, a series of terror attacks across various locations of Mumbai has left at least 125 dead and 327 injured.
Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil says he had no intelligence about the attack.
“We didn't have the intelligence input of how and when they will attack,” Patil said.
Eyewitness accounts provided to the police suggest that two boatfuls of nearly 20 terrorists carrying explosives and weapons in bags entered Mumbai through the Colaba fishing harbour.
Home Minister RR Patil says he was informed about the presence of 12 terrorists.
“I have been told that there were 12 terrorists, five of whom have been killed,” the Home Minister said.
High-level intelligence sources claim that Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorists have been developing their marine terrorism operations off the coast of Karachi.
Two days ago, Defence Minister A K Antony raised the issue of terrorists exploiting maritime security loopholes.
In 2006, a CNN-IBN investigation revealed how Mumbai coasts were vulnerable to security breaches.
For the 1993 Mumbai blasts, RDX, weapons and other ammunition had entered India through Shekhadi, a coastal village near Mumbai. Fifteen years later, terrorists have landed the same deadly cargo in the heart of Mumbai.
Apart from grenades and AK 47s, police recovered 8 kg and 19 kg RDX near the Taj Hotel and Oberoi hotel on Thursday. Experts say that with such large quantities of RDX, terrorists could have come undetected into Mumbai only through the sea.
Mumbai has never seen a terror strike of this magnitude but what is worrying is that security agencies had no intelligence about it.
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