India hangs surviving gunman of 2008 Mumbai attacks

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ReutersMohammed Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving suspected gunman in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, has been hanged. By NBC News staff and Reuters[font=&]India hanged Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, the only militant to have survived the 2008 attacks on the financial capital Mumbai, officials said Wednesday, local time. [/font]

[font=&]In August, India's Supreme Court upheld Kasab's death sentence over the attack on a string of targets in Mumbai that killed 166 people. Kasab, 25, was a Pakistani national. [/font]

[font=&]"Ajmal Kasab was executed at 7.30 this morning," Home ministry spokesman K. S. Dhatwalia said. [/font]




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