Mumbai under attack

Throughout the day, Indian security forces have been trying to take full control of two hotels and a Jewish centre in the financial capital, Mumbai, which were seized by gunmen in concerted attacks around the city that killed more than a hundred people.

Listen Listen to some sounds of the attacks (20 secs)

Listen Listen to eyewitness accounts (7 mins 25 secs)

The city's main station was the scene of one of the attacks

Among the targets were the Chhatrapati Shivaji railway station, the Leopold café as well as the Taj Mahal Palace and Oberoi hotels, where the gunmen opened fire, threw grenades and seized hostages.

This is how India's 24-hour news channel NDTV was reporting the story on Thursday morning:

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British businessman, Alan Jones, was in the Oberoi Trident when the gunmen attacked:

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Security forces have surrounded the Trident Oberoi hotel

Adrian Bregazzi is with the British Council in Mumbai.

He was in touch, via text message, with two colleagues who were hiding in a restaurant close to the Taj Hotel.

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Mumbai has suffered attacks before, but never on this scale and never so co-ordinated.

Dr Robert Bradnock is a South Asia specialist at King's College London.

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First broadcast 27 November 2008