The group of terrorists who reached Mumbai on boats two days ago to execute the worst terror attack on India had killed and thrown off-board at least three members of the crew of Kuber, the Indian trawler they hijacked, and beheaded Amarsinh Solanki, whose body was found in the boat. He was allowed to live longer, sources said, so that he could help them navigate.

Sources have told The Indian Express that reports from Coast Guard authorities said Solanki's “headless body” was recovered from the 45-foot trawler about five nautical miles from the Mumbai coast during an aerial recce of the waters of Arabian Sea.

A second decapitated body, with its hands tied, was spotted off the Nhava Sheva coast today, said sources in the Mumbai Police. The Crime Branch is now probing if this body could be that of a crew member thrown off Kuber. “We get the impression that there were two persons who may have helped them cover the stretch between the mother ship and the Mumbai coast. They could have killed these two men after their purpose, their navigational skills, was served,” said an officer from the investigating team.

Also, four bodies have been found floating in the waters of Jakhau near Gujarat, two days after the terrorists attacked Mumbai. The investigators have begun probing the identity of these bodies, first checking if these could be the men reported to be missing from aboard Kuber.

“Fishermen at Jakhau have come with the information that they spotted four bodies in the sea. We believe these bodies are of the fishermen who were aboard Kuber before it was hijacked,” said Manish Lodhari, general secretary of the National Fisherworkers Forum.

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