Mumbai the financial and entertainment center in India, was bombed in a terrorist attack yesterday. Gunmen stormed ten
separate locations in Mumbai, armed with AK-47’s shooting people at random. At two luxury hotels, guests at the Taj Mahal and Oberoi Hotel were ambushed by gunmen, many shot and wounded.
Many tourists are STILL stuck in the Oberoi Hotel, gunmen going door to door searching for American and British tourists to take hostage. The whole city is under siege and in total chaos. Several British, German, Australian, and Americans have already been killed in ten separate attacks.
An American woman, who was still inside the Taj with her husband, told CNN by phone Thursday that television feeds into the rooms had stopped and she did not know what was going on.
“We have water and we’re hunkered down and patient and ready to wait it out,” she said. “We’re OK. Last night was a different story, but today we’re OK.”
The woman, whom CNN is not identifying so as not to disclose her location to the gunmen, said she heard gunfire outside her room Wednesday night and “a man with an American accent screaming for help.”
Another woman, Aparna Dash had made it down to the fifth floor from her room on the 26th floor, her husband said, and found an American woman sitting on the stairs, dazed and crying.
“They were telling [the woman] that she needed to get up and keep moving,” said Biswa Dash, recounting what his wife told him. “She was crying and saying that there were all these people piled on top of each other and that the armed men had come at them just straight on — without masks, without trying to hide their faces at all. Just charging at them with their ammunition and their AK-47s.”
What a horrible and chilling scene. At least 125 people have been killed, and more than 300 injured, in the co-ordinated shootings in southern Mumbai. It’s reported at least one of the terrorist leaders was caught alive. For up to date information on the terror attacks go to CNN.com.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family.




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