4 who captured Kuber identified

Four of the seven Pakistanis who had captured MV Kuber and killed four Indian sailors on board the vessel have been identified, the police said. Mursheed, Aakib, Usman and Hakim Saab were among the 17 Lashkar-e-Tayiba (LeT) operatives who set sail for Mumbai from Karachi in the LeT-owned trawler, Al-Husaini, in mid-November last year

On November 23 afternoon, the four, along with three others, captured MV Kuber in the Indian territorial waters near Jakhau. They then shifted four of the five sailors on the Indian vessel to Al-Husaini and left for Pakistan, police said.

Meanwhile, Mohammed Ajmal Amir and the other nine terrorists who were involved in the Mumbai carnage got onto the Indian vessel with their weapons and dinghies. They held MV Kuber’s navigator Amarsingh Solanki hostage and made him steer the trawler to Mumbai’s waters. All through the journey, they were in touch with their co-conspirators and handlers in Pakistan through satellite phone. During a conversation, they learnt that the four Indian sailors had been killed. Solanki was beheaded by Ajmal on MV Kuber itself, just four nautical miles off Badhwar Park coast, the police said.

“We are yet to identify the three other LeT operatives who were on Al-Husaini,” Rakesh Maria, joint commissioner of police, crime, said.

Somendra Sharma/ DNA-Daily News & Analysis Source: 3D Syndication