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Months After Mumbai Attacks, Security Concerns Weigh on India

Four months after a coordinated terrorist attack killed more than 170 in Mumbai, India is still plagued by outbreaks of violence despite some government efforts. NewsHour correspondent Simon Marks reports on the atmosphere ahead of the country's general election.

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  • GWEN IFILL:

    Now, the first in a series of stories about India, a rising power plagued by terrorism.

    Today, three bombing attacks in the state of Assam left 7 dead and 60 injured. But the prime minister said he would still campaign there tomorrow. India holds elections later this month.

    Our series, from special correspondent Simon Marks, begins in the financial capital, Mumbai.

    SIMON MARKS, NewsHour special correspondent: Business is booming at the Cafe Leopold in Mumbai. For 138 years, waiters here have delivered frosted pitchers of beer and hot plates of spicy Indian nibbles to tourists and locals who frequent this popular watering hole.

    And now they're protected by armed, private security guards, a symbol of the fear that continues to grip the city even as normal life is returning.

    ERIC ANTHONY, manager, Cafe Leopold: In South Mumbai, like we never expected this to happen in South Mumbai.

  • SIMON MARKS:

    Eric Anthony has managed this family-owned business for a decade, and what he never expected could happen did happen last November 26th.

  • ERIC ANTHONY:

    This is the bullet that went from here, came out from here.

  • SIMON MARKS:

    At 9:30 p.m., he and his customers came under attack by two heavily armed men bearing sub-machine guns. The terrorist assault on Mumbai that would take more than 170 lives, and more than three days to subdue, had begun.

  • ERIC ANTHONY:

    That night, I really face death face to face. I was just shot. A bullet brushed me and went away.