10.59 pm

Back outside Cama Hospital, Khan and Kasab fire at a police vehicle approaching them. It is carrying the chief of the Anti-terrorism Squad Hemant Karkare, Additional CP Ashok Kamte, Senior Police Inspector and celebrated ‘encounter specialist’ Vijay Salaskar, and a driver. All three officers are killed in the firing, Mumbai and India lose three of their best crime-fighters at the same time. The driver of the vehicle survives.

11.10 pm

Having taken the vehicle, a police Toyota Qualis, the two terrorists speed past onlookers and mediapersons gathered outside the Metro Cinema junction, which is about 400 metres away from the front entrance of the Cama Hospital, shooting as they drive past. One policeman is hit even as he is telling people to duck. He dies immediately, along with a bystander. A cameraperson has a finger knocked out by a bullet from the spray.

12.30 am

They head to Vidhan Bhavan in Nariman Point, where they drive around areas like the SBI building and Mantralaya. The Qualis suffers a flat tyre. They get off, hijack a Skoda at gunpoint and then drive off in the direction of Girgaum Chowpatty, where an emergency nakabandi slows them down. While they kill one assistant sub-inspector who tries to stop them, they are shot at by officers of the DB Marg police station. Khan dies, Kasab is taken into custody.