Mohammed ajmal kasab biography for kids

Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone suriving gunman in the Mumbai terror attack held guilty on Monday, is a school dropout who saw 'jihad' as a purpose of his life.

The images of the 22-year-old Pakistani national, ambling cockily in his cargo pants and sneakers, a backpack on his shoulders and an AK-47 gun dangling carelessly from his arm still sents shivers among the survivors of the terror attack.

Kasab, the face of the devastating Mumbai attack in which 166 persons were killed, took part in the bloodiest episode of the 60-hour siege that started on the night of November 26, 2008.

He was one of the two heavily armed gunmen who opened fire and threw hand grenades at the city's main railway station Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus(CST) in the initial hours of the carnage killing 52 people and injuring more than 100.

He was among 10 activists of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba who crossed the sea from Ka