“Qasab has told us that he is with Lashkar and along with the other nine was trained at camps in Pakistan. Each terrorist was carrying about 10 hand grenades. Qasab has given us the names of the other nine men but they might be aliases and need to be verified.”
Maria denied reports that the terrorists were staying in the Colaba area using Malaysian student identity cards and rubbished talk of two hotel interns assisting the terrorists. He said that the three groups of terrorists who held hostages captive at three different locations in the city were not in touch with each other during the course of the attacks.
(With inputs from Smita Nair)