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Terrorism States - Maharashtra When death came calling Our Bureau Mumbai, Nov. 27 On Wednesday night, this Mumbai businessman thought that the sanctuary of his own house in Colaba was not sufficient to protect him and his family. As terrorists fired indiscriminately at the residential complex in Colaba where the Bohra businessman Salim Hararwala lived with his family, all the glass panes in his first floor apartment were shattered, petrifying him, his wife Maria and their 29-year old son. They thought it was no longer safe to stay in their house and took a lightning decision to cross over to their friend’s IV Floor apartment in a building just opposite to theirs. They made the crossover safely enough. But then as the sound of gunfire and blasts continued, all the three crossed over to take a look at what was happening on the street. Within moments a bullet went straight through the 63-year old businessman’s head; the next one got his wife Maria and the third one whizzed just past the son Mohammedi’s hair. Hararwala died on the spot, his wife succumbed a little later to the bullet injury and Mohammedi escaped unhurt. A family friend later said that Hararwala ran a medium scale factory manufacturing flanges and of late his business was doing extremely well. While his second son was studying in a UK college, his third son was a student of a Mumbai college. “Overnight the children have become orphans; the entire family is devastated because had they stayed back in their own house, they would have been alive. It was not like they were dining at the Taj Mahal or the Oberoi,” he added. But at the besieged Taj Mahal Hotel there was another group of Bohra men and women, dressed in traditional attire, attending a meeting, and the brother of the Bohra spiritual leader, Shabbir Bhai Saheb, was injured by a bullet fired at his foot, but was discharged from the hospital after treatment on Thursday afternoon. More Stories on : Terrorism | Maharashtra
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