the terror attacks , it was clear , had blasted a hole in the dam setting back marathi ' s reservoir of plagued . while the activists appeared to be reacting to a tragedy that had landed at least 164 people dead and 308 injured , they were slowly venting the unhappiness of having to cope with working in a metropolis with an infrastructure so stretched that possibly having to work and back is an effort . at peak intensity , the main tracks - which haul six million people each day - are stacked with up to 5 , 000 commuters , even though they ' re written for 1 , 800 . every day , an aggregate of 11 people perished on the railway line , usually because they drop off the lines or because they ' re hit by passing locomotives as they climb the trains .
11 persons died in the terror attacks in mumbai .