India Won't Forget 26/11: Twitterati pay tribute to 26/11 victims

Mumbai, Nov 26: India won't forget 26/11 easily. In 2008, on this date, the country's busiest metropolitan city and financial capital, Mumbai was attacked by gun-wielding men from Pakistan who killed 166 people and injured hundreds of others.

The lone surviving gunman in the incident, Ajmal Kasab, was executed in Pune's Yerwada jail at 7:30 am on November 21, 2012.

The Twitter community has been paying tributes to those who were killed in the horrendous shootout, using the hash tag #LestWeForget and #IndiaWon'tForget26/11.

Here are a few tweets on 26/11:

Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid homage to the victims of horrific 26/11 terror attacks and saluted the security personnel while reaffirming India's commitment to combat the menace of terror and "uproot it from the face of humankind".

"We remember the horrific terror attacks in Mumbai on this day in 2008 and pay homage to the innocent men and women who lost their lives," Modi, who arrived here yesterday to attend 18th SAARC Summit, tweeted.

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