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Mumbai Attacks: Playing Dead to Survive

Police officer Arun Jadhav survived the 2008 Mumbai terror attack by playing dead beneath the bodies of his police colleagues after their SUV was ambushed by two gunmen.

Police officer Arun Jadhav and six of his colleagues were on duty during the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks when their van was ambushed by two of the gunmen. The officers were on their way to help at a hospital targeted by the militants. The attackers seized their vehicle, opened fire on the police, and within minutes, Arun鈥檚 colleagues were dead. Arun tells Outlook how he survived the attack by hiding under his colleague's bodies and playing dead.

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(Image: Arun Jadhav. Photo credit: HindustanTimes.)

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