Deadly Attacks in Mumbai Documented by Bloggers in Real Time

Posted by AlterNet Staff, AlterNet at 7:52 PM on November 26, 2008.

The coordinated terror attacks in Mumbai, which have left at least 82 dead and 240 wounded, are being documented by citizen journalists throughout the city, and transmitted through social media and information-sharing tools like Flickr, Twitter, and local blogs. 

 From Noah Shachtman at Wired: 

Twitter has fresh news every few seconds, on Mumbai, Bombay, #Mumbai, and @BreakingNewz.

"Hospital update. Shots still being fired. Also Metro cinema next door," tweets mumbaiattack. "Blood needed at JJ hospital," adds aeropolowoman, supplying the numbers for the blood bank.

A Google map of the attacks has already been set up. So has a shockingly-current Wikipedia page, which features a picture of one of the gun-toting attackers.

The local bloggers at Metblogs Mumbai have new updates every couple of minutes. So do the folks at GroundReport. Dozens of videos have been uploaded to YouTube. But the most remarkable citizen journalism may be coming from "Vinu," who is posting a stream of harrowing post-attack pictures to Flickr.

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