| Submit your comments on this article |
| India-Pakistan |
| Woman tells court Mumbai attackers killed her daughter |
| 2009-06-12 |
| Two armed men who burst into Mumbai's main railway station during November's deadly attacks last year killed a six-year-old girl in front of her mother, a court was told on Thursday. Giving evidence at the trial of Pakistani national Ajmal Kasab, who is alleged to have been one of the gunmen, Nafisa Qureshi, 23, said she was waiting with her daughter Afreen for a delayed train when the firing started. "At 9:30 pm I heard a loud explosion, after which there was some firing. I saw people running helter-skelter and suddenly I saw in front of me my daughter was hit in the back and I got hit on my left foot," she said. "I saw two people about 15 feet away who were just firing randomly. My daughter shivered for a short while and then collapsed in my arms and died." Kasab, 21, sat silently with his head bowed during her testimony, an AFP reporter in court said. Asked to describe the gunmen by prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam, Qureshi added: "I saw one man who was tall and one short." "I can identify that he is the shorter one," she said, pointing at the defendant. On Wednesday a 10-year-old girl, who was disabled in the station shooting, also identified Kasab in court. Pressured: Qureshi was calm while narrating events but broke down in tears under cross-examination from Kasab's lawyer Abbas Kazmi, who suggested that she had been pressured by the police into identifying his client as one of the attackers. "No, I'm right. You're wrong," she told the lawyer. A second witness, Jiloo Yadav, said Abu Ismail was the other after being shown a photograph. |
| Posted by: |