Submitted by Andru McCracken

My wife and I arrived back in Mumbai last night at about 11:45 pm amid rumours of gunshots and blasts. Fortunately our train terminated at Kurla Station and we didn't need to go to VT (CST) where many trains arrive and depart and were there was apparently some gunfire.

The story developed as friends and family called and texted each other on the route northward to the suburbs. When we reached our flat at Kopar Khairane, Navi Mumbai (far from the action at the posh hotels in south Mumbai) we heard the news that there was still a lot of action going on.

Coverage of the event in the late hours of the night was spastic and irrational as many reporters were in the middle of the action, live news reels of people being shot replayed on India's CNN.

Our close relatives are due to leave Mumbai to the US on a late international flight. There is some question as to whether that will take place as planned.

We're told that the attacks were well coordinated. Certainly the death of the a high profile police office who was investigating the Malegaon blast would lead people to believe this. But breaking the peace isn't a difficult thing to do in any civil society.

It is interesting that the attackers chose posh hotels as their primary target. In the attacks at the hotels mass causalities were not the aim.

Reality check: School was cancelled because of the attacks so the predominate sound today at our flat is the sound of kids playing cricket and splashing in the pool, and the occassional airplane flying overhead (as they always do) to the international airport. The din of traffic is unusually low, many people appear to by lying low.

I did wake up to the sounds of multiple explosions at around 9:15 am. The source wasn't apparent, but the sounds of gleeful children made us reasonably sure that it was not a series of bombs, but rather a string of firecrackers left over from Divali.

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