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                      India Executes Mumbai Attack Gunman

   by VOA News

   India has executed the lone surviving gunman from a group of militants
   who killed 166 people in the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
   Mohammed Ajmal Kasab was hanged Wednesday at a prison in Pune, near
   Mumbai.
   The home minister in Maharashtra state, where Mumbai is located, said
   Wednesday that the execution is a tribute to those who lost their lives
   in the attack.
   Kasab, who is a Pakistani national, was convicted in 2010 on charges of
   murder, terrorism and waging war against India.  He initially pleaded
   not guilty, but later confessed to his involvement in the three-day
   siege.
   He appealed his death sentence, but India's Supreme Court upheld the
   punishment and the country's president denied his mercy plea.
   Kasab and nine other young, heavily-armed Pakistanis attacked luxury
   hotels, a Jewish center and a busy train station in India's financial
   capital.
   India has blamed the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba for
   the siege.  It claims the attacks were carried out with state support
   from Pakistan -- a charge Islamabad denies.
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