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3 terrorists killed at Taj, operations officially on

Updated at: 0953 PST, Saturday, November 29, 2008 NEW DELHI: The 59-hour siege of old Taj hotel ends with the NSG killing three terrorist who were holed up inside. NSG said they would not declare the operation over before sanitising each and every floor. "Three terrorists have been killed but we are still continuing our operations," Director General of NSG, J K Dutt, told reporters outside the hotel. On whether all the terrorists have been killed and hotel is now free, he said that it could be ascertained after the combing operation is over. During the night, terrorists holed out in the hotel engaged in a fierce gun battle with security forces as some places in the first and the ground floors of the 565-room building set afire by terrorists amid explosions in the over 100-year-old heritage complex in the Colaba area.