After the unprecedented terrorist attack on Mumbai's prime landmarks, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh discussed the operation, casualties, and the likely security fall-out of the events of the last three days with top Defence and Home Ministry officials.

Singh held a lengthy two-and-half-hour discussion with Defence Minister A K Antony and officers from the armed forces and the intelligence agencies on ways to prevent recurrences of such terror attacks, government sources said.

However, Home Minister Shivraj Patil was missing at the top-notch meet, as he was not called for the meeting, the sources added, indicating that the PM could be ‘cut up about Patil's handling of the Mumbai terror crisis’.

The 60-hour-long fierce battle in the western metropolis had left 195 dead and 295 injured at important locations including Taj Hotel, Oberoi Trident, Nariman House and Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus.

Singh called the meeting at 1300 hours to review the security situation in view of the attacks for which the terrorists had apparently come via the sea route into India's commercial capital and caused havoc to prime property, including the 105-year-old Taj Hotel.

Among others, who attended the meeting, were Defence Secretary Vijay Singh, Navy Chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta, IAF Chief Air Chief Marshal Fali Homi Major, Army Vice-Chief Lt Gen M L Naidu, and Intelligence Bureau Chief P C Haldar.