Brooke Satchwell Australian Actress Escapes Mumbai Attacks

In the chaos in Mumbai, one Australian famous actress tells a harrowing tale of survival.

Australian TV/movie actress and presenter Brooke Satchwell has narrowly escaped with her life after the terror attacks on hotels, restaurants and other facilities in Mumbai, India.

The 28-year-old beauty was staying in the Taj hotel with her production crew due to shoot a series of luxury lifestyles when the first shooting occurred in the hotel lobby.

Brooke Satchwell was forced to hide in a two-by-three metre storage cupboard in the lobby, she spent hours there hearing bombs explode and gunfire, before being escorted out by security forces.

Via: India Economic Times:

"The staff let us hide in a service cupboard between the two bathrooms. We sat in there listening to matching gun fire," Satchwell said. The hostage situation at the hotel cleared up only by Thursday afternoon.

"Two of the male staff were sticking their heads out to see what was going on, which was absolutely terrifying. They were coming back and reporting that there was a dead body outside the bathroom and that they were seeing people being shot in the hallways," she added.

"There was a lot of confusion, no one really knew what was going on and we all felt a bit like sitting ducks."