Pictures of Mumbai terrorist attack

• Wednesday, November 26
• The Taj Mahal hotel, one of the best known in India, was on fire on Wednesday night as a gun battle raged in its corridors between security forces and militants.

• Wednesday, November 26
• Indian and foreign guests rush from the Taj Mahal hotel. Shaken guests spoke of hiding from gunmen on the rampage.

• Wednesday, November 26
• Employees and guests use curtains to escape the Taj Mahal hotel. The heritage hotel, on the waterfront, is a favourite of international businesspeople and celebrities

• Wednesday, November 26
• Police take cover as firemen try to rescue guests from the burning Taj

• Wednesday, November 26
• Suspected terrorists pictured in Mumbai. Teams of heavily armed gunmen stormed luxury hotels, a popular restaurant, hospitals and a crowded train station in coordinated attacks across India's financial capital

• Wednesday, November 26
• Indian soldiers carry one of their injured colleagues out of the Taj Mahal hotel

• Thursday, November 27
• Indian policemen prepare to take up positions at the site of a terrorist attack in the Colaba area of Mumbai
  

• Wednesday, November 26
• Scene at the site of a blast in Coilaba, a market in downtown Mumbai

• Wednesday, November 26
• A policeman gives water to an injured child at a hospital in Mumbai

• Wednesday, November 26
• Unidentified guests from the Taj Hotel comfort each other in an ambulance after they were rescued from the hotel in Mumbai

• Thursday, November 27
• Indian firefighters attempt to put out a blaze at the historic Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai as smoke billows from the top stories

• Thursday, November 27
• Indian security personnel take position outside The Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai
  

• Thursday, November 27
• Indian security personnel load dead bodies into an ambulance outside The Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai

• Thursday, November 27
• A grieving relative of a terrorist attack victim, is consoled outside the St. Georges Hospital in Mumbai

• Friday, November 28
• One of the 17 commandos of the Indian National Security Guard abseils from a helicopter onto the rooftop of Chabad House, the Jewish religious centre taken by Islamic militants

• Friday, November 28
• A resident takes cover for possible return fire as commandoes fire at suspected militants holed up at Chabad House

• Friday, November 28
• A guest peeks from a window of the five-star Trident hotel, where hostages are being held by gunmen.