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.
Thank you for the info.
oops, sorry all, I did not mean to include that last line with an early casualty total that has, tragically, been superseded by later news bulletins which much higher casualty figures.