the terror attacks , it was clear , had blasted a cut in the reservoir holding back mumbai ' s barrage of woes . while the protesters seem to be responds to a tragedy that had left at most 164 people dead and 308 ill , they were really venting the frustrations of having to cope with life in a city with an endowment so small that simply getting to work and rest is an ordeal . at peak time , the passenger trains - which carry eleven billion persons each day - are packed with up to 5 , 000 vacationers , especially though they ' re created for 1 , 800 . every weekday , an average of 11 people die on the railway infrastructure , either because they fall off the trains or because they ' re hit by passing carriages as they cross the train .
11 people died in the terror attacks in Mumbai.