India Hotels 6 - WRAP Hostages released from Oberoi, Taj gunfire, Singh ADDS shots
NAME: IND HOTELS 6 20081128I
TAPE: EF08/1197
IN_TIME: 10:14:29:02
DURATION: 00:06:06:22
SOURCES: TV Today /Various
DATELINE: Mumbai, 27,28 Nov 2008
RESTRICTIONS: See Script
STORYLINE
TV Today - No Access India
28 November
1. Hostages and trapped guests walking out of Oberoi hotel; woman in black net veil hugging a waiting relative
2. Rear shot of people walking out of Oberoi Hotel
3. American man being followed by media
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vox pop, American hostage or trapped guest from Oberoi Hotel, No name given:
"It was fine. They were... the hotel was very nice."
5. Various of Japanese man being asked questions by media but he doesn't want to answer
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vox pop, British trapped guest from Oberoi Hotel, no name given:
"I saw nothing. I was in my room. (Inaudible) I heard everything from... All I did was hear things from my room, so..."
Star TV - No Access India, ++STAR TV LOGO MUST NOT BE OBSCURED++
28 November
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant General N. Thamburaj, Indian Army:
"I would like to conclude by saying that it's just a matter of a few hours that we'll be able to wrap up things."
8. Woman carrying a child (possibly hostage or trapped guest of Oberoi hotel) walking out
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant General N. Thamburaj, Indian Army
"Our troops of the NSG commandos, they are still carrying out operations. It has been confirmed that there is a contact with one terrorist as of now. He is moving in two floors; there is a dance floor area which apparently he has cut off all the lights, and sometimes he gets holed up into some of the rooms and he has made that area dark."
10. Various of hostages and trapped guests walking out of Oberoi, one woman in wheelchair
11. Mid of area with onlookers and security forces
Star TV - No Access India, ++STAR TV LOGO MUST NOT BE OBSCURED++
28 November
12. Pan of police and others take cover outside Taj Mahal Hotel, AUDIO: gunshot, pan right to hotel
13. Man appears at upper floor window
Star TV - No Access India, ++STAR TV LOGO MUST NOT BE OBSCURED++
28 November
14. Pan of news conference by Indian army commandos
15. SOUNDBITE: (English) No name given, Indian commando:
"See I told you these people were very very familiar with the hotel layout and it appeared that they had carried out a survey before and a very well determined plot."
Star TV - No Access India, ++STAR TV LOGO MUST NOT BE OBSCURED++
28 November
16. Cutaway of news conference
Star TV - No Access India, ++STAR TV LOGO MUST NOT BE OBSCURED++
28 November
17. SOUNDBITE: (English) No name given, Indian commando:
"The terrorists locked up about 200 people in the adjacent room where the firefight actually took place, so once we exchanged the firefight we were confident that terrorists either have been killed or have moved out from there, we actually entered the room cleared the room and got about 200 people out about 6:30 a.m. This was in the new building."
Star TV - No Access India, ++STAR TV LOGO MUST NOT BE OBSCURED++
28 November
18. Media outside Oberoi hotel
19. SOUNDBITE: (English) J.K. Dutt, Director General of India's elite National Security Guard:
"All are under control, we are now just sanitising each and every room to make sure that there is no undesirable element, number one, and number two that the guests over there can also get relieved and they can come out."
CDI - No Access India
27 November, 2008
20. Various, India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, with chairman of the India National Congress and leader of the United Progressive Alliance Sonia Gandhi, and officials visiting injured and talking to doctors (++MUTE++)
STORYLINE:
Indian commandos freed nearly two dozen captives from Mumbai's Oberoi hotel on Friday, as the troops searched the building for attackers, on the third day since a chain of militant attacks across India's financial centre left at least 143 people dead.
At the Oberoi hotel, at least 25 captives were rushed out and loaded into waiting cars, buses and ambulances.
It was unclear how many people remained inside.
The group, many clutching passports, included at least two Americans, a Briton, two Japanese nationals and several Indians.
Some carried luggage with Canadian flags, and two women were dressed in black abayas, traditional Muslim women's garments.
The Army insisted their operations were almost over.
"It's just a matter of a few hours that we'll be able to wrap up things," Lieutenant General N. Thamburaj told reporters.
Elsewhere in Mumbai, two loud explosions and gunfire rang out at the luxury Taj Mahal hotel, which, on Thursday night, authorities had insisted was cleared of gunmen.
Army commander Lieutenant General N. Thamburaj said at least one gunman was still alive in the hotel and electricity had been cut off on the floor he was hiding on.
Hundreds of people had been captive in the two hotels, many locking themselves in their rooms or trying to hide as the gunmen roamed the buildings.
Security forces searched room by room at the hotels - two of the top gathering spots for the Mumbai elite.
Commandos had spent much of Thursday bringing out hostages, trapped guests and corpses from the hotels in small groups while firefighters battled flames that erupted.
The fires were out by Friday.
It remained unclear just how many people had been taken hostage, how many were hiding inside the hotels and how many dead still lay uncounted.
The well-coordinated strikes by small bands of gunmen starting on Wednesday night left the city shell-shocked.
On Friday police said that 24 more bodies have been found taking the death toll to at least 143.
The gunmen were well-prepared, even carrying large bags of almonds to keep up their energy during the fight.
During a news conference on Friday, an army commando said that the gunmen were familiar with the hotel building and they carried out "a very well determined plot."
Their main targets appeared to be Americans, Britons and Jews, though most of the dead seemed to be Indians and foreign tourists caught in the random gunfire.
Meanwhile, Indian commandoes killed two gunmen inside Mumbai's Oberoi hotel and taken control of the building.
J.K. Dutt, Director General of India's elite National Security Guard said the hotel was under control.
India has been shaken repeatedly by terror attacks blamed on Muslim militants in recent years, but most of them were coordinated bombings striking random crowded places: markets, street corners, parks.
These attacks were more sophisticated - and more brazen.
Analysts around the world are debating whether the gunmen could have been linked to, or inspired by, al-Qaida.
Indian media reports said a previously unknown group calling itself the Deccan Mujahideen claimed responsibility in e-mails to several media outlets.
The Deccan is a region in southern India that was traditionally ruled by Muslim rajahs.
Relations between Hindus, who make up more than 80 percent of India's 1 (b) billion population, and Muslims, who make up about 14 percent, have sporadically erupted into bouts of sectarian violence since British-ruled India was split into independent India and Pakistan in 1947.
Keyword Mumbai Attacks