Casualties of the November 2008 Mumbai attacks include civilians, Indian security personnel, and the attackers. The main targets of the attack appeared to be Americans, Britons, Australians and Jews, but most of the casualties were locals and foreign tourists caught in the gunfire. At least 164 people had been killed in the attacks and 293 wounded.
Among the dead were 134 Indian civilians, 17 policemen and 30 foreigners. The breakdown of the foreigners was as follows: four Americans, two Australians, three Germans, two Israeli-Americans, two Israelis, two Canadians, two French, two Italians, one British-Cypriot, one Dutch, one Japanese, one Jordanian, one Malaysian, one Mauritian, one Mexican, one Singaporean and one Thai. In addition, nine terrorists were killed and one was captured.
Twenty-seven other foreigners of different nationalities were injured in the terror strikes and were admitted to the Bombay Hospital. Hospital sources said the injured foreigners were from Australia, USA, UK, Canada, Germany, Canada, Spain, Norway, Finland, Oman, China, Japan, the Philippines and Jordan.
Nationality | Deaths | Injured |
---|---|---|
Indian | 134 | 256 |
American | 4 | 2 |
Australian | 2 | 2 |
German | 3 | 3 |
Canadian | 2 | 2 |
Israeli-Americans | 2 | - |
Israeli | 2 + an unborn child | - |
French | 2 | - |
Italian | 2 | - |
Cypriot-British | 1 | - |
Dutch | 1 | 1 |
Japanese | 1 | 1 |
Jordanian | 1 | 1 |
Malaysian | 1 | |
Mauritian | 1 | - |
Mexican | 1 | - |
Singaporean | 1 | - |
Thai | 1 | - |
Austrian | - | 1 |
British | - | 7 |
Chinese | - | 1 |
Omani | - | 2 |
Filipino | - | 1 |
Spanish | - | 2 |
Finnish | - | 1 |
Norwegian | - | 1 |
Total | 164 | 293 |
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