Mumbai, Dec 1 : United States investigating agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), took first hand information of Hotel Taj, one of the sites attacked in Mumbai, on Monday to help the Indian investigating agencies unravel the conspiracy behind the Mumbai terror attacks.

The FBI team arrived in India reportedly to give technical and forensic support to crack down the atrocious Mumbai attacks that according to state police killed around 200 people, including 22 foreigners.

Mumbai, Dec. 1 : An elite Indian commando has revealed how he was shot by terrorists as he searched for survivors at the Taj Mahal Palace hotel.

In an interview with Sky News, Sunil Kumar of the Black Cat Commandos said room-by-room searches took place in a bid to locate hostages.

He also told of the moment a gunman hit him with three rounds as he tried to drag a hotel employee to safety.

Mumbai, Dec. 1 : At least five terrorist gunmen have evaded capture in Mumbai and could make a secondary strike on the city, reports Fox News.

Indian security forces are officially claiming that ten militants – nine of whom were killed and one caught alive – were behind a coordinated terror attack that claimed nearly
200 lives.

The attack on Mumbai , the commercial capital of India, by terrorists, who subjected the city to unprecedented violence for three days during the last week of November has many lessons for the nation to learn.

The terrorists may not have been able to bring down the Taj Mahal, the Oberoi-Trident, Café Leopold and Nariman House, but they have been successful in achieving their main objectives-- which was to kill as many people as possible and depict the city, and India as an unsafe place.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh had offered to resign in the wake of the deadly Mumbai terror attacks. Speaking to the media, he said, "In the Congress Working Committee meeting day before yesterday, I offered to resign. The party high command has not taken any decision on this so far but whatever they decide I will accept."

Maharastra Deputy Chief Minister R R Patil, who was in the controversy in the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks, resigned on Monday.

"I have submitted my resignation letter to Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh. I have gone by my conscience and decided to take this step," Patil said on Monday.

"I pondered over the issue the whole night yesterday. Finally, I have decided to quit as per my conscience," Patil said.