Alejandro de la Joya and Álvaro Renfigo, the two Spanish businessmen trapped by terrorists in the Oberoi Trident Hotel (main photo) in Mumbai, have been liberated by Indian commandos and are said to be safe and well.

Mumbai's chief of police has revealed that 24 bodies, including those of two terrorists, were found inside the Oberoi, and at least 93 people have been rescued.

All those trapped inside the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel (second photo) have also been rescued although around ten Israeli nationals remain captive in the Nariman House synagogue complex.

Around sixty Spanish nationals left Mumbai this morning on board a Spanish Air Force jet bound for Torrejón air base outside Madrid and the Interior ministry is making arrangements for around twenty others to leave later this afternoon on a French plane.

In total, at least 125 people are believed to have been killed and more than 300 others injured in the attacks.

Madrid president escapes unscathed from Mumbai terror attack hotel
By: valencialife.net
Thursday, November 27, 2008

Almost eighty people were killed in the Indian commercial capital Mumbai as terrorists struck in coordinated attacks on two main hotels and eight other locations including a hospital, the main train station and an up-market restaurant.

However, the main focus of the attacks was the two hotels - the Taj Mahal and the Oberoi Trident - as gunmen took an unknown number of foreign guests hostage, and exchanged fire with anti-terrorist commando units, after taking all those with either British or American passports to the upper floors, but several managed to escape along the way.

In the early hours of the morning the upper floors of the Taj Mahal caught fire with firemen using their ladders to rescue trapped guests via their windows.

Esperanza Aguirre, the president of the Madrid Community was inside the hotel when the terrorists struck, but along with Sajjad Karim a British member of the European Parliament, managed to escape unhurt.

There are also unconfirmed rumours that a Spanish couple were injured in the attacks, though both are now reported to be out of danger.

It seems that the man broke his femur and is recovering following surgery while his wife suffered superficial cuts and bruising caused by flying shrapnel.