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This article has been mentioned by multiple media organizations:

News Service (2008-11-27). "'Citizen journalism' offers intimate view of Mumbai attacks". France24.
AFP (2008-11-29). "Riveting accounts online". The Straits Times.
Sam Dolnick (2008-11-30). "Bloggers provide raw view of Mumbai attacks". The Associated Press.

Casualties of the 2008 Mumbai attacks was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 14 December 2015 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into 2008 Mumbai attacks on 22 December 2015. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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Jamal, Arif (2009), Shadow War: The Untold Story of Jihad in Kashmir, Melville House, ISBN 978-1-933633-59-6
Riedel, Bruce O. (2013), Avoiding Armageddon: America, India, and Pakistan to the Brink and Back, Brookings Institution Press, ISBN 0-8157-2409-8

Casualties and compensation[edit]

This section in table showing 166 killed but line below in 1st para showing 175 killed, which is true? Something is missing in table? Rock Stone Gold Castle (talk) 06:45, 11 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Featured image change[edit]

the featured image should be changed to something more iconic than a map, like the Taj on fire GoatLord234 (talk) 13:13, 17 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]