Does anyone know the name of the Brit MP? I have been trying to find it everywhere. Thanks.
He’s actually an MEP. I saw his name earlier.
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/torydiary/2008/11/tory-mep-involv.html
News has reached me that a second Conservative MEP is in Mumbai and at the Taj Place Hotel, near to the scene of one of the terrorist attacks.
Syed Kamall, a London MEP, is another member of the 9- or 10-strong delegation from the international trade committee, which is currently staying there during fact-finding visit.
He has been in touch with one of his colleagues who has passed on the news that as far as we know he too is not injured.
It is being suggested, however, that one of the assistants to the delegation has been injured.
Sajjad Karim, the Conservative MEP for North West England who defected from the Liberal Democrats a year ago today has found himself embroiled in a siege in a hotel in Mumbai.
He has just appeared on Sky News, giving an eyewitness account of events, which have reportedly seen two people shot dead by gunmen and many others injured.
Mr Karim is not understood to have been injured.
Later reports on Indian TV suggested there have been a series of terrorist attacks on a number of locations, with estimates of the number of dead now varying from 10 to 25.
“A number of European Parliament Committee on International Trade delegates were staying in the Taj Mahal hotel when it was attacked.[22] British Conservative MEP, Sajjad Karim (who was in the lobby when gunmen initially opened fire there) and German Socialist MEP, Erika Mann were last heard of hiding in different parts of the building.[23] Also reported present was Spanish MEP Ignasi Guardans Cambó, who was barricaded in a hotel room.[citation needed] Another British Conservative MEP, Syed Kamall reports that he along with several other MEPs left the hotel and went to a nearby restaurant shortly before the attack.[23] Kamill also reported that Polish MEP, Jan Masiel, was thought to have been sleeping in his hotel room when the attacks occurred and has not been heard from since.[23] Kamil and Cambó report that a Hungarian MEP’s assistant has been shot.[23][24]”-—Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/26_November_2008_Mumbai_attacks)
MEP, Sajjad Karim