From the India Today archives (2001) | Parliament attack: The day India was targeted
India TodayThe world may consider it the unluckiest set of digits in the world but R.K. Anand doesn’t think so. Had even one of the five armed terrorists, suspected to be hardcore Lashkar-e-Toiba men, gained entry into the main Parliament building the casualties could have been enormous. It all began with that ubiquitous beetle-like symbols of politics, a white Ambassador driving towards the main Parliament building from the Parliament Street entrance, its red light flashing. The terrorists’ chances of "success" were whittling away: having scaled the wall and running in the open they came under fire from the CRPF men along the perimeter wall and the columns on the first floor verandah of Parliament. When it was all over, the statue of Mahatma Gandhi, behind which the camera crews had taken desperate shelter, overlooked a surreal scene: a broken body lay on the steps of the main entrance to Parliament, bits of flesh and stains of blood dotted the portico and every one walking in a slow daze back to some semblance of recovery in a haze of smoke.
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