US State Department spokesman Ned Price said in his daily news conference on Monday that the memory of the brutal attack by terrorists in Mumbai in 2008 is still fresh in both India and the United States.
The Biden administration said that the memories of the terrorist attack that took place in Mumbai in 2008 are still fresh.
“They’re still burning here (and) in India,” Price told reporters at his daily news conference.
“They are still vivid, even in the United States. We can all remember the horrifying imagery of that day, the hotel attack, the bloodshed that ensued, and that is why we continue to insist on accountability for its perpetrators.” Not just the individual operatives who took so many innocent lives that day, but the terrorist groups behind it, who helped organize it,” Price said in response to a question.
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166 people were killed and over 300 were injured in one of the worst terrorist attacks in the history of India. On November 26, 2008, 10 heavily armed terrorists from Pakistan created havoc in Mumbai.
Indian security forces killed nine Pakistani terrorists. Ajmal Kasab was the only terrorist who was caught alive. Four years later, on 21 November 2012, he was hanged after a trial.
(with PTI inputs)
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