Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, the only militant to have survived the 2008 attacks on Mumbai, was today hanged at Pune's Yerwada Jail at 7:30 am after President Pranab Mukherjee rejected his mercy petition. In August, Supreme Court upheld Kasab's death sentence over the attack on a string of targets in Mumbai that killed 166 people. Kasab was a Pakistani national who said he belonged to the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba.

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