Correction: No Tallitot on the Victims

Report about Chabad House victims wrapped in tallitot was false

A report in several media outlets that Jews killed during a terrorist raid of the Chabad House in Mumbai on Friday were found wrapped in prayer shawls is false...

...The rumor started because a Jewish doctor placed a tallit over the dead body of a Jewish victim in the hospital morgue, said the Israel Defense Forces attache in India, who led the Israeli rescue efforts. The doctor was apparently motivated by the Jewish precept of honoring the dead, in part by covering the corpse.

The rumor was apparently spread by an Israeli rescue worker from the Zaka organization who went to Mumbai to identify bodies and was in telephone contact with friends in Israel.