A newspaper photographer told a court Monday how he came face to face with two of the Mumbai attacks gunmen as they brought carnage to the city's main railway station. Sebastian D'Souza said he had been heading to the Taj Mahal Hotel on the evening of November 26 last year following reports of gunfire but diverted to the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus when he heard shooting there.
"The sound came from inside. Then I heard a big bang," the 56-year-old picture editor with the Mumbai Mirror tabloid told a special prison court trying Pakistani national Mohammed Ajmal Kasab. D'Souza said he heard gunfire from the mainline train platforms and saw a uniformed police officer and another in plain clothes who were also trying to locate the source of the firing. "There was some firing. I saw two figures coming with backpacks. It was backlit so they were dark figures," he told prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam. "They started firing towards a ticket window. I didn't know who they were. "Then I realised they were the terrorists."