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Singapore will engage India on Mumbai fallout

SINGAPORE: As Singapore felt deeply “touched by the tragedy” that befell its citizen, Lo Hoei Yen, who was killed in the terrorist attack at the Oberoi Hotel in Mumbai, the city-state expressed a desire to engage India on the way forward.

The 28-year-old woman-lawyer was in Mumbai on a working visit. Singapore Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for National Security, S. Jayakumar, noted that “it could so easily have happened to anyone of us or our loved ones, because we all travel.”

Mr. Jayakumar said: “At some stage, after things have settled, our officials will get in touch with their counterparts in India, because we need to learn whatever lessons for ourselves.”

Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, in a condolence message to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, said: “I share your revulsion against these heinous crimes.”

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