Sixteen dead in Mumbai shootings, blast: report

Sixteen people were killed late Wednesday in an apparent series of firing incidents and blasts in India's financial capital Mumbai, the Press Trust of India said.

The news agency quoted police as saying that 10 people were killed and more than 30 people injured in gunfire at the main Chhatrapati Shivaji railway station.

Three staff were shot dead in a separate shooting incident at the luxury Taj Mahal hotel in nearby Colaba district, PTI said.

Another three people died in what they described as a "bomb blast" in a taxi in the southeast of the city.

Maharashtra state police chief A.N. Roy was quoted as saying that "at least two terrorists" were holed up inside the top-end Trident hotel in the neighbouring Nariman Point business district.

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