People run for cover as gunshots are fired from inside the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai November 27, 2008. Maharashtra state police chief A.N. Roy said on Thursday that the hostage situation had ended at the Taj Hotel in Mumbai, but that there were still apparently hostages in the Trident/Oberoi. [Agencies] 

Smoke and fire billows out of the Taj Hotel in Mumbai November 27, 2008. Elite Indian commandos fought room to room battles with Islamist militants inside two luxury hotels to save scores of people trapped or taken hostage, as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh blamed neighbouring countries. [Agencies] 

Mumbai anti crime branch officers hold a discussion near the Taj Hotel in Mumbai November 28, 2008. Indian commandos fought room to room battles to save people trapped inside two luxury hotels after coordinated attacks by gunmen across Mumbai that the prime minister blamed on a militant group outside the country. [Agencies]