A taxi cab carrying three terrorists with a cache of hidden explosives was headed toward the airport in Mumbai on Wednesday night when the vehicle exploded at a traffic light, hurling body parts into the air, including a severed head and three human legs.

From India Today, India's most popular magazine.

A taxi driver’s unfamiliarity with the new slip route to the terminal perhaps went a long way in averting a major disaster that could have taken the toll into hundreds on Wednesday night itself.

Shortly before the terrorists moved into their targets in South Mumbai, a black and yellow taxi, with three passengers and enough ammunition to bring down a dome, sped in the direction of the airport.

…the lights stayed red for long, at which the passengers berated the driver and asked him to cut the traffic lights. The driver moved on, but the wait turned out to be a minute or two too long. The car exploded. All that was found was a severed head and parts of three human legs.

Had the terrorists' plans of coinciding a blast at the airport with the attacks on the Taj and Oberoi hotels succeeded, the death toll of 26/11 would have been much bigger than it already is.

Times of India reports the death toll has risen to 195. And that the one terrorist in custody, Mohammad Ajmal Mohammad Amin Kasab, shot dead India's Anti-Terrorist Squad chief Hemant Karkare.

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