Fighting room-by-room through two luxury hotels, over dozens of bodies and through darkened corridors slick with blood, the commandos came up against well-trained and determined gunmen.
“When we first exchanged fire we could have got the terrorists, but for the hotel guests” in the line of fire, an unidentified member of India’s Marine Commando unit told reporters, his face wrapped in a black mask. “The bodies were lying strewn here and there and blood was everywhere.”
The Taj Mahal and Oberoi hotels
