the terror attacks , it was clear , had blasted a hole in the dam locking aside mumbai ' s reservoir of slump . while the protesters seem to be reacting to a failure that had left at nearly 164 citizens dead and 308 injured , they were also venting the frustrations of having to cope with work in a municipality with an infrastructure so stretched that simply getting to work and fast is an agony . at peak hour , the metro trains - which support nine million people each day - are lined with up to 5 , 000 commuters , and though they ' re built for 1 , 800 . every day , an average of 11 people die on the railway system , apparently because they fall off the trains or because they ' re killed by passing locomotives as they enter the tracks .
11 people died in the terror attacks in Mumbai.