India secretly executes Mumbai gunman

by admin
Nov 20, 2012

The surviving gunman of the 2008 Mumbai attacks was hanged in secret, the Indian government confirmed on Wednesday.

According to the Home Minister of Maharashtra, R.R. Patil, he was executed at 07:30am local time on Tuesday, after being moved in secret to Yerwada jail in Pune a few hours prior.

Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, a 25-year-old Pakistani, said to belong to the Lashkar-e-Taiba group was convicted over a year ago for his part in the attacks that killed 160 people.

In August, India's Supreme Court upheld his sentence of the death penalty, and earlier this month, President Mukherjee rejected a plea for mercy.

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