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Some witnesses said the gunmen had told Muslims to leave and said non-Muslims would be targeted.

"They came and said: 'If you are Muslim, stand up. We've come to rescue you," said Elijah Lamau.

He said the Muslims left with their hands up, and then the gunmen shot two people.

The correspondent in Nairobi for the Economist, Daniel Howden told the BBC he spoke to one man with a Christian first name but a Muslim-sounding surname who managed to escape the attackers by putting his thumb over his first name on his ID.

However, the man told Mr Howden that an Indian man standing next to him who was asked for the name of the Prophet Muhammad's mother was shot dead when he was unable to answer.

The BBC's Mark Doyle, who is embedded with the African Union (AU) mission in Somalia, says the AU troops attack al-Shabab where they can.

Al-Shabab says the AU forces are invaders stopping their legitimate vision of creating an Islamic state and respond by mounting hit-and-run attacks, our correspondent says.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague said there would "undoubtedly" be British nationals caught up in Saturday's events.

He confirmed that the UK government's emergency committee Cobra met on Saturday afternoon.

The US State Department says it has reports that American citizens were injured in what it called "a senseless act of violence".

This is one of the worst incidents in Kenya since the attack on the US embassy in August 1998.

Full article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24191606

44 Muslims dead, 35 injured in Mumbai terror attacks

New Delhi: In the bloodiest ever terrorist attacks in the country, 195 people were killed in the attacks at hotels Taj, Trident and Oberoi, and Nariman House and Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station in Mumbai. The dead include 44 Muslims and of 300 injured 35 are Muslims.

This shows that the terrorists, whatever their faith may be, had no religion in their mind when they were on a killing spree. They wanted to kill as many people as they could and thus terrorise the countrymen.

List of Muslims killed in the attack

JJ Hospital

Abdul Sheikh (5)

Siddique Sheikh (35)

Hena Sheikh (16)

Shabbir Majeed Sheikh (45)

Hasina Sheikh (20)

Manauwar Begum (45)

Mukhtar Sheikh (35)

Abdur Razzaq (22)

Farooq Nasiruddin Khaliluddin (53)

Asif Muhammad (26)

Firoz Khan (44)

Rajan Shareef (23)

Abdus Salam (50)

Faqeer Mohammad (38)

Abdur Rasheed (40)

Md Siddique (29)

Sanju Hussain Ghorpade (15)

Nafeesa Sadaf Qureshi (46)

Imran Baghban (29)

Shabbir Abdus Salam (53)

Meraj Alam (24)

Mumtaz Khan (28)

Md Ayob Ansari (21)

Habib Rahman Khan (30)

Afroz Abbas Ansari (30)

Parwez Aslam (27)

Ibrahim Abdur Rahman (40)

Asif Babu Bhai ()

Manauwwara Ali Sheikh (60)

St. George Hospital

Aziz Rampuri (55)

Shoaib Ahmad Sheikh (30)

Shahabuddin Khan (35)

Zaheer Syed (25)

K E M Hospital

Afreen Qureshi (6)

Amna Bi (28)

Md Mukhtar Malik (45)

Noor Islam Azhar (31)

Sarfaraz Ansari (38)

Habibur Rahman (18)

Murtaza Ansari (30)

Arif Ansari (40)

Bombay Hospital

Raouf Jagan (28)

Shekram Shaukat Ali (43)

Mitu Ansari (26)

http://twocircles.net/2008nov30/44_muslims_dead_35_injured_mumbai_terror_attacks.html

http://www.mid-day.com/news/2008/nov/281108-mumbai-terror-attack-list-dead-injured-casualty.htm