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The store sits in a bylane in the central Indian city of Mumbai's busy shopping precinct, and has served the community for 75 years.

"It's shocking that something like that can happen in a main shopping precinct in the middle of the day. It's just so sad."

"The city centre is dead, it's like a shopping precinct graveyard," he said "It's depressing if you've grown up in Glasgow."

The redevelopment scheme would replace a "tired 1980s" shopping precinct which, once the shops shut, became a "dangerous and unhappy place" with a modern area which could be enjoyed all year round, he said.

Ashley McGurk, 32, was assaulted while walking near Harpurhey shopping precinct in Manchester on 24 December 2011.