Mumbai: Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari and Chief Minister Eknath Shinde of Maharashtra paid floral tributes on Saturday to the martyrs who gave their lives defending the city against terrorists who had assaulted it 14 years earlier.
They paid tributes at the martyrs' memorial on the premises of the Police Commissioner's Office in south Mumbai. 

Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, minister Deepak Kesarkar, Chief Secretary Manu Kumar Srivastava, state Director General of Police (DGP) Rajnish Seth, Mumbai Police Commissioner Vivek Phansalkar and other officials were present at the memorial.

The martyrs were also honoured by the families of the cops who died in the attacks in November 2008.

On November 26, 2008, ten terrorists from Pakistan who had arrived by sea opened fire on the crowd, killing 166 people--including 18 security personnel--and injured many more. They also destroyed property worth millions of rupees.

Major officers who lost their lives: Among those dead in the incident were the then-head of the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), Hemant Karkare, Army Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, Mumbai's Additional Police Commissioner Ashok Kamte, and Senior Police Inspector Vijay Salaskar.

The attack began on November 26 and continued until November 29. Among the locations targeted by the terrorists were the Nariman House Jewish Community Center, the Oberoi Trident, the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower, the Leopold Cafe, and the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus.

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