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In this photo of November 17, 2018, two Muslim boys stand in front of the iconic Taj Mahal Palace, the epicenter of the 2008 terrorist attacks that killed 166 people in Mumbai, India.
(AP Photo / Rafiq Maqbool)
The United States on Sunday offered up to $ 5 million information on the attackers who unleashed terror in India 's largest city 10 years ago, when 39, a terrible siege that killed 166 people, including six Americans.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the award in a statement, calling for justice of the families of the victims in Mumbai.
10 years later, Mumbai goes through attacks but the scars remain
"It is an affront to the families of the victims that after ten years, those who planned the Mumbai attack have still not been convicted for their involvement," said Pompeo. "We call on all countries, especially Pakistan, to respect their obligations to the UN Security Council to apply sanctions to terrorists responsible for this atrocity, including Lashkar-e-Tayyiba and its affiliates."
A girl walks past a wall in Chabad House and wears bullet marks on the eve of the tenth anniversary of the Mumbai terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, on Sunday, November 25, 2018.
(AP Photo / Rajanish Kakade)
The award, offered through the Department of Justice's Rewards for Justice program, is extended to those who "obtain information permitting the arrest or conviction of anyone involved in the planning or facilitation of the organization." Mumbai attack in 2008 ".
As the financial capital of India with more than 18 million inhabitants, Mumbai became a war zone on November 26, 2008 as a group of Pakistani gunmen who launched coordinated attacks on the city. . They targeted two luxury hotels, a Jewish center, a tourist restaurant and a crowded train station. Three days of carnage killed 166 people, including foreign tourists, and wounded hundreds of others.
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The focal point of the assault was the iconic Taj Mahal Palace hotel. Thirty-one people died inside the hotel, including staff trying to guide guests to safety. Smoke images coming out of the city monument came to define the 60-hour siege.
The focal point of the assault was the iconic Taj Mahal Palace hotel. Thirty-one people died inside the hotel, including staff trying to guide guests to safety. Smoke images coming out of the city monument came to define the 60-hour siege.
(AP Photo / Rafiq Maqbool)
India has blamed the attack on Pakistan's militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, which has thrown relations between its nuclear-armed neighbors. Indian officials accused the Pakistani intelligence agency of collaborating with the militant group in organizing the attack – an allegation refuted by Islamabad.
Pompeo, in his statement, said that the United States stood alongside the friends and family of those "who were lost in this act of barbarity, including six US citizens." The barbarity of 26/11 shocked the whole world".
Kelly Fox News Lines and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
