Gunman identified by police as Ajmal Kasab walks at the Chatrapathi Sivaji Terminal railway station, Mumbai, India (Mumbai Mirror, Associated Press).

Pakistani Ajmal Amir Kasab and nine other gunmen entered Mumbai by boat on Nov. 26, 2008. The group attacked luxury hotels, Mumbai’s main train station, a restaurant and a Jewish prayer center over a three-day period, The Washington Post and Associated Press reported. 

Kasab was hanged in secrecy at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday morning at a jail outside of Mumbai, India’s home minister, Sushil Kumar Shinde, told reporters in New Delhi. 

India’s president rejected Kasab’s appeal for mercy on Nov. 5, The Washington Post reported. 

India blames Laskhar e-Taiba, a militant Pakistani organization, for orchestrating the attacks and training the gunmen. 

“I am very happy about the hanging because I was in a position to bring justice to 166 departed souls who died in the terror attack four years ago,” Ujwal Nikam, the prosecution lawyer in Kasab’s trial, said in a phone interview with the Post from Mumbai. “We established through the legal process how terror was exported to India from Pakistan. This will make Indians very happy because ultimately Kasab got a harsh punishment that is similar to the manner in which he mercilessly killed innocent people that day.”

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