MUMBAI: The militants, who entered
into Mumbai by boats to carry out probably the worst terror attack on India,
began their killing spree in the high seas where they killed five fishermen
who're "missing" since last week.
The militants killed and thrown
off-board four members of Indian fishing trawler 'Kuber' soon after they had
hijacked it, while the fifth person, identified as Balwant Tandel, was beheaded
as the vessel neared the Mumbai shores, sources said.
In fact, the
investigators are now corroborating the information they gathered with that of
the version of the arrested Lashker-e-Taiba militant Ajmal Amin
Kamal.
So far, it has emerged that Kamal, along with another 11
Lashker cadres, had sailed off the Karachi port city in a merchant vessel and
got down at ten nautical miles in Indian waters.
Kamal, who had been
maintaining that they had used the fibre glass boats to reach Mumbai on
Wednesday night, has now confessed that they also used a fishing trawler, which
was reported to be "missing" after rough weather on November 18.
And
after killing the five crew members, the militants docked the vessel at Sasool
area and began their massacre with clear cut instructions from across the border
that "no mercy needs to be shown".
Giving an insight into the
Lashker's seas-warfare, he is said to have claimed that, along with other LeT
operatives, they were trained in marine commando techniques on Mangla Dam, a
reservoir stretching between Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK) to Punjab in
Pakistan.