the terror attacks , it was clear , had hammered a hole in the dam holding back mumbai ' s reservoir of woes . while the protesters seemed to be responses to a tragedy that had left at least 164 people dead and 308 dying , they were really puzzlement the frustrations of having to cope with life in a city with an infrastructure so stretched that simply finishing to work and forth is an ordeal . at peak hour , the passenger trains - which carry eight million passengers each day - are packed with up to 5 , 000 commuters , but though they ' re built for 1 , 800 .
The Mumbai attacks claimed at least 164 lives.