Eight Israelis died in the attacks by Islamists that ravaged the Indian commercial capital Mumbai, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Saturday. "Eight bodies have been identified as being those of Israelis, some of them with dual Israeli and US nationality," the spokesman said, according to AFP.
Six were killed in Chabad House, a Jewish cultural centre that was stormed by Indian commandos on Friday, and the other two died in attacks elsewhere in the city. The spokesman added that another four Israelis still remained unaccounted for.
Israeli news websites said that the three dead with dual Israeli and US nationality were the director of Chabad House, Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, and two male staff who supervised Jewish dietary laws.
Three Israeli women, including the rabbi's wife, were also killed at the cultural centre.
Defence Minister Ehud Barak said some of the bodies had been tied up, and that two of the dead women had been killed many hours before. "All in all, it was a difficult spectacle," the Internet edition of the Haaretz newspaper quoted Barak as saying late Friday.
He said Israel had offered all manner of help to India, including assistance "that is inappropriate to detail here."
