Mumbai: With Indian intelligence and security agencies still groping to identify the terrorists who have struck at the country's financial capital, Australian TV actress ad a harrowing ordeal to tell of her confrontation with a group of terrorists in Mumbai’s landmark Taj hotel.
Satchwell, who was staying at the Taj, hid herself in a two metre-by-three metre cupboard for an hour to escape death.
There was people getting shot in the corridor. There was someone dead outside the bathroom," the shaken actress told Australian television. "The next thing I knew I was running down the stairs and there were a couple of dead bodies across the stairs. It was chaos."
Three Australians also held hostage for a while have also come out describing them as "young boys."
The description came from two young Australian tourists, David Coker (23) and his partner Katie Anstee (24), who were among the first to come face-to-face with the terrorists in metropolis' famous bar Cafe Leopold in Colaba.
"They looked just like boys and they were on a rampage -- It's a full-on." David and Katie have arrived in the city to celebrate their graduation and they went to eat at Leopold, when terrorists struck.
"We have just sat down for dinner ordering food when it seemed fire crackers were blowing up all around us and people were screaming," the duo told the Sydney's Courier-Mail newspaper telephonically.
Katie was shot in the leg with the bullet breaking her femur while David was grazed by bullet and both had to flee.
David said, he had to virtually carry her girlfriend as she couldn't move.
"We got into a taxi which took us to Bombay hospital. We were, I think, the first people at hospital, which is where we are now," they said.
(With PTI and Reuters inputs)
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