12 Years since Mumbai Terror Attack: Indians pledge to never forget brave heroes of 26/11

Mumbai terror attacks of vember 26, 2008, have left a scar on psyche of city, which it still struggles to cope with. It was on this day, 12 years ago, that India's financial capital was held to ransom by a group of Pakistani terrorists who carried out a massacre for four days, claiming more than 166 incent lives. 

As city marked 12th anniversary of deliest attack nation has ever seen, social media was flooded with tributes for Bravehearts who sacrificed ir lives to protect a thousand ors. With pledge 'Never Forget, Never Forgive' netizens declared that those who really me history, were martyrs of dastardly terror attack. 

're was terror on one side, se heroes on or': quoted one of users of Twitter, while paying tributes to unsung heroes who paid ultimate sacrifice while fighting terrorists on that dreful night. 

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26/11 Mumbai terror attacks

Twelve years ago, on night of vember 26, 2008, 10 heavily armed terrorists entered Mumbai via sea route and went on a ramp. 26/11 attack witnessed 10 Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists going on a killing spree in buzzing city during peak hours.

Over 166 people, including foreign nationals, were killed in series of coordinated attacks that lasted for four days.  Mumbai terror attack transformed India's perception towards national security and led to strengning its maritime surveillance, inter-ncy coordination, and dissemination of information, 

Nine terrorists were killed by security forces including National Security Guard (NSG), who was martyred in action during attacks. Former ATS chief Hemant Karkare, Army Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, Mumbai’s ditional police commissioner Ashok Kamte and senior police inspector Vijay Salaskar were among those killed in attack.

Ajmal Amir Kasab, only terrorist to be captured alive, was hung four years later on vember 21, 2012.