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Mumbai Is On Alert After Receiving A 26/11-Like Attack Threat.
The Mumbai Police traffic control cell threatened an attack like “26/11 terror blitz, Udaipur tailor’s killing, or Sidhu Moosewala’s murder” on Saturday, and one person was detained.
The crime branch team probing the threat messages is questioning a man detained from Virar near Mumbai. A threat was received on the WhatsApp number of the traffic control cell from a number with Pakistan's code, police said.
As per sources police, the messenger threatened the attack would take place in Mumbai and that "6 people in India would carry out the attack". The messenger said that if their "location were traced, " it would be found outside India, police said.
The Mumbai police commissioner assured the safety of citizens, adding that the Maharashtra ATS and Mumbai Police were on high alert. Police said security agencies were probing the threat, taking it seriously.
The 2008 Mumbai terror attacks were one of the most horrific terrorist attacks in India's history, in which 166 people were killed and over 300 injured as ten heavily-armed terrorists from Pakistan created mayhem in Mumbai over four days starting November 26, 2008. The terrorists belonging to Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistani Islamist terrorist organization, carried out 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks across the city.
The latest threats come 2 days after the state suffered a major security scare when a yacht with 3 AK-47 guns and ammunition drifted to the Raigad coast and was stuck at Harihareshwar beach. Though a potential terror threat was ruled out, a detailed investigation is being carried out by the ATS and police.
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