Trends | Updated Dec 01, 2008 at 01:18pm IST

Cafe Leopold returns items to clients

Liz Neisloss, CNN

Mumbai: Resilient Mumbaikars are making an effort to return to their regular routines. But the evidence of the three days and nights of horror from Wednesday last to Saturday, is everywhere.

The Cafe Leopold is one of Mumbai's most famous icons. The restaurant is very popular with western tourists and everywhere that one can see, there are paraphernalia and relics of western origins.

A poster of a western classic, or an item of the west grace its walls. but now the walls are riddled with bullets.

"You see what happened was that these two guys they came and they fired at the entrance over here. Let me show you, from outside. And then, one went to that entrance - one came to this entrance and because people were sitting, they were just firing randomly," said the partner and owner of Cafe leopold.

Its tables were once covered by food and drinks. Now they are brimming with piles of tourist backpacks, phones and guidebooks. Many are labelled with names and cities of European origins. Needless to add, these were left by customers who ran for their lives.

"We are now trying to identify them. We are now trying to charge their mobiles, and phone them up to see if anybody knows where they are so that they could come," said the owner of the place.

Resilient Mumbai has gotten on with its day to day life. The stories of terror fade into the busy city's bustle.

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