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Police to ask for burial of dead Mumbai attackers

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-03-15 17:33

NEW DELHI -- Indian police will soon ask a special court to allow the burial of nine militants killed in the Mumbai terror attacks last November, a senior Indian Home Ministry official said Sunday.

"The bodies are kept preserved in a hospital mortuary. But, now they would be buried as nobody has claimed them. We will move the special court, hearing the Mumbai massacre case, to get the formal permission to dispose of the bodies," the official said, on condition of anonymity.

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Earlier, Muslim organizations in the Indian financial capital had refused to provide land for the burial of the nine attackers.

The Mumbai terror attacks on November 26 last year were more than 10 coordinated shooting and bombing terrorist attacks across the city, which killed over 170 people and injured hundreds.

Mohammad Ajmal Amir alias Kasab, the only attacker who was captured alive, disclosed that the attackers were members of Lashkar-e-Toiba, the Pakistan-based militant organization, considered a terrorist organization by India, the United States and the United Kingdom.