An Australian bride caught up in the terror blasts in Mumbai says the city is in chaos.
Chloe Papazahariakis told the Nine Network that Mumbai is in "total lockdown''.
"I've just moved to this beautiful city to marry my husband in four days and I've got about 20 friends here for the wedding in the midst of all this chaos,'' Ms Papazahariakis said.
"We just can't believe it.''
Ms Papazahariakis was speaking from the restaurant where her reception is to be held.
She said a nearby hospital had been bombed by terrorists and the death toll had reached 75.
"They are targeting every suburb in this city but the most tragic thing is that for the first time ever they are targeting big-time foreigners and five star hotels,'' she said.
"There have been a lot of bombs in India and they normally target marketplaces and the poorer society but where we are at the Taj Mahal Hotel, an historical hotel, they have eight foreign hostages.
"They've got hand grenades and police are very worried they are suicide bombers.
"They are on a rampage - it's full-on and they are not stopping.''
Another Australian, who is just 100 metres from the Taj Mahal Hotel where terrorists have taken hostages, said the city of 19 million people had come to a standstill.
Bernard Carpenter told ABC Radio that he had been at a restaurant just moments before a gunfight broke out.
"I've been back there and there is blood everywhere,'' he said.
"Unknown people have taken over seven sites, including three luxury hotels and two hospitals which have many of the victims in there.''
Mr Carpenter said the terrorists had also attacked the train station and the domestic airport.
"It seems as though that what is one of Asia's great and most powerful cities, has come almost to a standstill,'' he said.
Mr Carpenter said he was remaining indoors because he had heard the terrorists were targeting British and American nationals.
"I'm a tall white Westerner and these people are after people like me,'' he said.
Aussie calls for help
An Australian man caught up in the attacks called a television network desperate for help to escape the hotel in which at least two gunmen have opened fire.
Steve Smith called the Seven Network from a "dingy little room'' at the back of the Taj Mahal Hotel where he is hiding after witnessing two gunmen toss grenades into the restaurant in which he was having a beer just hours earlier.
"At about 9.40(pm) I was having a beer in the Leopold Cafe - luckily I was with some friends upstairs - when two gunmen coming downstairs threw two grenades into the restaurant and then opened fire for about 10 minutes with AK47s (semi-automatic assault rifles),'' Mr Smith told Seven.
"I wedged the door down the bottom with a table and then went straight upstairs until the police came.
''(When they came) we went to where we thought was a safe place - the back of the motel we were staying in, but it's under siege at the moment.''
Mr Smith said he was now desperate to find a way out of the hotel with a Japanese woman and two German air stewards he was hiding with.
"I don't have a weapon, or a firearm ... I don't know what's going on, I don't have access to a television or anything,'' he said.
"I'd like someone to tell me what's going on so I can make a plan to get out of here with these guys. I'm about a block from the harbour and my plan is just to go.''
Mr Smith said he became separated from an Australian man and woman when he went back downstairs to lock a door cutting off the terrorists.
He described one of the gunmen as looking about 17 or 18.
Mr Smith's interview was cut short so he could be put in contact with DFAT in the hope they might be able to help him.