'Please don't desert Mumbai'

Mumbai's hotel managers and tourism chiefs have called for foreigners not to give up on the city after the coordinated strikes that left at least 172 people dead and close to 300 wounded.

With many holiday and business bookings being scrapped, officials urged tourists to support Mumbai in its hour of need.

"If they are thinking of cancelling their stay, we are requesting that they only postpone," Kiran Kurundkar, the state director of tourism, told AFP. 

"If they cancel, everything comes to a halt and the extremists have achieved their aim. More...

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