Inside the hotel, there were two dead bodes near the swimming pool, two more in an upstairs corridor where police were combing. All those inside the hotel at the time had been huddled into small rooms by the staff, some into the chambers in the basement. “We could hear the gunshots coming closer, then the glass in the Crystal Room shattered,” said one diner.

“We crouched on the floor while the shooting continued,” she continued. “Then the staff came and took us into the chambers inside.”

Later, there were two more explosions heard at the Taj. The devastation in the second round of attacks here was massive, said reports.

CST

Four men with automatic rifles entered the CST station around 10 pm and two started firing indiscriminately first towards the crowd outside and then inside the station. The other two were spotted rushing towards the Metro Cinema multiplex via the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation offices and the Azad Maidan next door. The two holed up inside the station took refuge in an empty local train coach and were apparently cornered by police. But they had killed at least 10 people by then and wounded 30.

TRIDENT

Firing heard around 10.10 p.m. near the hotel, just across The Indian Express office at Express Towers, forcing guests and taxi drivers outside to flee. Bodies were taken out and frightened hotel staffers came out crying. Glass windows in the upper floors of the Trident were being shattered.

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