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| New revelation in Kasab case |
| 2009-07-04 |
| [Iran Press TV Latest] An eye witness says Pakistani gunmen Mohammed Ajmal Kasab and Abu Ismael used him as a 'human shield' to escape police at Mumbai's Cama Hospital. Chandrakant Tikhe, who works as generator operator and liftman at the hospital told Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam at a special court hearing the Mumbai case on Friday that on November 26 2008, after hearing gunshots, he rushed to the hospital's terrace and came face to face with the gunmen. According to Tikhe, the two men asked him the way to escape and when he told them that they could go down through the same staircase, they held a gun on his head and asked him to lead them downstairs. He said that they had made him a 'human shield' while trying to escape from the police who were at that moment coming up the staircase. When Kasab saw the policemen, he threw a hand grenade and there was an explosion. Tikhe said a splinter hit him in the neck and he was injured but managed to escape in the midst of smoke caused due to the explosion. The witness also said that Kasab, the lone surviving gunman in the Mumbai terror spree, had also fired at police in which two personnel were injured and two others killed. |
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