Motzei Shabbos Updates from Chabad House in India

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Update - 9:30PM: The Kohrman Family who were in Boro Park, for the bobov wedding, are now being escorded by NYPD and Bobov Askunim to the airport.

- It appears that Rebbitzin Rivka HY”D was killed the first night of the attack based on the state of her body when it was recovered on erev Shabbos, referring to rigor mortis. The body was covered with a tallis when rescuers arrived, which we presume was done by the rav, whose body was found on a different floor.

- R' Noach HY'D appears to have been murdered shortly before the event ended, ZAKA volunteers reported his body was still warm when they received it.

- The bodies of the Kedoshim HY'D, will be brought to Eretz Yisroel tomorrow night by the Israeli military.

- R' Leibish Teitlbaum HY'D was found in the library slumped over a open Gemara Brochos.

- The bodies of the 2 females HY'D, were found with a telephone cord wrapped around them.

- R'Bentzion Chroman HY'D, was found on the 5th floor.

- The Chabad Shliach spoke many times to one of the terrorists, it was recorded on R' Holtzberg's cell phone, one time the terrorist told him we have nothing against Israelis, only against the Indian goverment.

- Chabad leaders have asked to bring Sandra Samuels to Eretz Yisroel, the helper that rescued the 2 year old son of the Holtzbergs, Moishe, because she is close to the kid.

- The Holtzberg's Levya will most probably be on Monday, at the Beis Medresh 770 in Kfar Chabad, Israel.

- R' Leibish Teitalbaum was suppose to go to Thailand but he chose rather to go to India because of the bad situatoin in Thailand.

- R' Bentzion Krohman wasn't suppose to go to India because he was lately on another Hashgucha Mission somwhere else, but he went because he needed extra money because he was an Urev and needed to pay somone else's Choiv.

- Mumbai officials agree to back down from demands to perform autopsies on the Kedoshim HY"D.

- Terrorists placed booby traps and hand grenades in the hands of the victims, making their identification and evacuation significantly more dangerous and complicated.

- The terrorists had planned the attacks for 7 months and 2 of them were employees at the Taj hotel.

- Terrorist say, the plan was to take hostages from the Chabad and the hotels, and use them to bargain for safe passage out of Mumbai.

- In Atlanta, Georgia, a baby born to a Chabad Yid was named this Shabbos, Rivkah Chaya after Rivkah Holtzberg HY"D.

- 1 additional victim of 8 found in the Chabad House, identified as Israeli tourist, Yocheved Orpaz, all Levayas are scheduled in Eretz Yisroel on Monday.

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(Yosef Teitelbaum for YIDVID)