Teams of gunmen stormed luxury hotels, a popular restaurant, hospitals and a crowded train station in coordinated attacks across Mumbai, taking Westerners hostage and leaving parts of the city under siege.
Remembering 26/11: Images from then and now
Ten years ago terrorists from Pakistan laid siege to India's financial capital for three days, killing 166 people and injuring hundreds more. Here are some of the places that bore the brunt of the attack, as they were then and as they are now.
In this file photo taken on November 27, 2008 firefighters attempt to put out a fire as smoke billows from the hotel.
The iconic Taj Mahal Palace hotel, the epicenter of the 2008 terror attacks, with its imposing, red-tiled dome, overlooks the Gateway of India monument, left, in Mumbai, India. Thirty-one people died inside the hotel, including staff trying to guide the guests to safety.
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The room of Moshe Holtzberg, son of slain US Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg who was killed with his wife, is seen left in the same state following the 2008 Mumbai militant attacks on November 25, 2018. Nariman House, one of the targets of the attacks, was renamed the Nariman Light House and will be a memorial, making it the only place in Mumbai to honour all the 166 victims of the incident.
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