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The Indian nanny who saved the toddler of a Brooklyn couple in Mumbai gives her first interview to the Daily News. During last week's terror attacks, Sandra Samuel says that little Moshe Holtzberg, just shy of his second birthday, was covered in blood and next to his mother's body when she found him.

Two-year-old Moshe Holtzberg cried out for his parents during a memorial service for them and others killed at a Jewish Center in Mumbai, India last week. Brooklyn couple Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka, who had moved to Mumbai to run the Chabad House in 2003, died in the terror attacks while little Moshe, reportedly found next to his parents' bodies, was spirited out by his Indian nanny.

The young son of the Brooklyn rabbi and his wife who were killed in the terror attacks in Mumbai celebrated a tearful second birthday yesterday. A community leader described the scene as Moshe, the orphaned son of Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg, was watched over by his maternal grandparents, "He had been crying. He is too small, you see, and all this must be affecting him so much." Indian officials had not yet sent the couples' bodies to be buried in the Holy Land because they are performing an autopsy on them--something prohibited by Jewish law. Today India's top security official resigned amidst growing questions around the nation's vulnerability to this week's attacks.

After Indian commandoes stormed a Chabad-Jewish Center in Mumbai, where some of the workers had been taken hostage, the NY Times reports, "In the end, six of the hostages were killed, including the Brooklyn couple who operated the center."

Yesterday, it was reported that Brooklyn Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka (pictured, left) "are among the westerners taken hostage at the Mumbai headquarters of the New York-based outreach group Chabad Lubavitch" during Wednesday's terror attacks in Mumbai, India. Terrorist gunmen had entered the Chabad house, and reportedly took a number of people hostage. Commandoes just stormed the building, and CNN-IBN reports that "5 hostages killed at Mumbai Jewish center." (More details on the raid at the Times of India.)

Yesterday, a series of coordinated terror attacks in India's financial capital Mumbai left over 100 dead and hundreds injured. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the attacks probably had "external linkages," which the NY Times reports is the "first official indication that the authorities were likely to blame outsiders." The attackers have taken hostages, many of them foreign tourists; some have been released.