From the Daily Mail’s account of what happened in Mumbai:

Evidence was emerging last night that the the gunmen killed their victims early in the siege and fooled Indian security forces into thinking that they were holding hostages.

At the Sir J.J. Hospital morgue, an official said that of the 87 bodies he had examined, all but a handful had been killed during Wednesday night.

Clever. Kill all the people first and claim you have hostages. Buys time to, for example, prepare the battlefield for the coming assault. It would certainly play into Western sensibilities if and when these event happen closer to home.

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