Brooke Satchwell, her boyfriend David Gross and seven other Australians, English and Americans are trapped in a hotel in south Mumbai, unable to get help and increasingly afraid for their lives.
Satchwell was forced to hide in a two-by-three metre storage cupboard in the lobby of a hotel during the attacks in Mumbai.
Mr Gross cut his leg escaping from Cafe Leopold as terrorists attacked.
"I can't even get my leg dressed, we can't to the airport, that's been bombed, we can't go to the police centres, they've been bombed,'' Mr Gross said from a hotel room - which he asked not to be identified.
Mr Gross, the son of Sydney QC Bernard Gross, was concerned information would alert the gunmen to their location.
"Neither the consulate in Mumbai ior the Embassy in Delhi are answering their phones,'' he said.
"Our local driver has said it's too dangerous to drive on the roads, and if we do we'll be sitting ducks, with nine of us in two small taxis trying to leave.
"We don't know where to go, because we haven't been told where we need to go at this stage.''
Their group includes Anthony Rose, a Sydney television director, as well as photographers, camera people and other staff.
A British woman in their group, Caroline, is suffering from shock and is being cared for by Ms Satchwell, Mr Gross said.
The situation around their location was still perilous, he said.
"The gun battle is ongoing, there's army on top of the building ... we were told by hotel staff that commandos were forcing the terrorists towards the top of the Taj hotel."
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