MUMBAI: Mumbai police said the captor who held 17 children and two others hostage at a recording studio fired first, prompting retaliatory firing by the police in which he died. Police officials said that they spent nearly two hours trying to negotiate with Rohit Aarrya and gauge his demands, but he refused to cooperate, even after parents of one hostage said she suffered from seizures. An official said Aarrya appeared calm when police spoke to him. “Regardless of his demands, we couldn’t let him play with people’s lives. He fired first at police. Our team fired back in self-defence. There was no other option,” city police commissioner Deven Bharti said. Other officials iterated the safety of those held captive was top priority, adding the police team’s response was measured a

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