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Muslim graveyard refuses to bury Mumbai attackers
The Associated Press says a large Muslim cemetery in Mumbai is refusing to bury nine of the men who attacked India's financial capital last week.
At least 10 attackers, thought to be from Pakistan, killed more than 170 people and wounded hundreds more over the course of three days.
One of the gunmen survived. He is in police custody.
Nine bodies are still in the morgue. "People who committed this heinous crime cannot be called Muslim," Hanif Nalkhande, a trustee of the Muslim Jama Masjid Trust, tells AP. "Islam does not permit this sort of barbaric crime."
The wire service says investigators in Mumbai, the city formerly known as Bombay, don't know what to do with the remains.
"The gunmen must be buried because we are bound to see that their last rites are performed according to the religion they follow," Jain Sirmukadam, a senior police inspector, says. "We have heard the trust's decision. We are considering what to do now."
NDTV says police are trying to determine whether the attacks involved additional terrorists, beyond the 10 who have been accounted for since the siege began last Wednesday.
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