Click to play videoMumbai: Three suspected terrorists, including a Pakistani national, were arrested by the security forces from the Taj hotel on Thursday night.
Ajmal Amir Kamal, a resident of Faridkot, Multan in Pakistan and two others were arrested from the hotel, official sources said.
Kamal told the investigators that they had come in a merchant vessel, which dropped them at 10 nautical miles ahead of Indian waters.
From there, they took a dingy fibre glass boat to enter the Indian waters, he said. There were 12 people on the boat, he said.
The arrested militants belong to Lashkar-e-Taiba, officials said.
Earlier, the police had arrested a man named Ismail, believed to be a Lashkar-e-Taiba operative, in connection with the attack.
However, the big concern and where questions would be focused in the next couple of days is loopholes in India's maritime security.
Meanwhile, Brigadier Bobby Mathew, the Army officer in-charge of operations at the Taj hotel says that atleast 15 people taken hostage are still trapped inside the hotel and two to three militants are also in.
“There are civilians still inside the building. I cannot quantify in time how long the operation will take. there are 12-15 civilians and 2 or 3 terrorists,” he said.
While the chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh did agree the that the sea route was used, he claimed there were no intelligence inputs.
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