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Australian TV actress,Brooke Satchwell who was trapped inside the Taj, hid herself in a cupboard for an hour to escape death.
Brooke Satchwell, former star of soap opera ‘Neighbours’, told a radio portal she was inside the ground-floor toilets when the attack happened and “everyone just froze.”
“As I stepped into the bathroom you could hear machine-gun fire start up in the lobby,” she told the radio portal.
“People started locking themselves into the toilet cubicles, which clearly wasn’t a very good idea. But we were trying to find somewhere to hide,” she said.
Ms. Satchwell, along with her boyfriend and about eight other foreigners, has now been moved to another hotel in south Mumbai, whose location was not disclosed for security reasons.
Brooke Kerith Satchwell is an Australian actress.
She won the Best New Talent at the 1998 Logie Awards and an Australian People's Choice Award for Favourite Teen Idol in 1999.
Kerith had a well-publicised split with her boyfriend, fellow actor Matthew Newton. The 27-year-old, who has always struggled to feel comfortable in the spotlight, says the only way she was able to deal with the intrusive attention was to ignore it and focus on work.
The Hollywood Reporter said Australian television star Brooke Satchwell, who was working in Mumbai for three weeks, was in a meeting Wednesday inside the hotel when armed assailants burst into the building firing their weapons.
The couple, who were staying at the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai, said they have been taking advice from the British and the Americans on the terror attacks, and were amazed at the lack of response of their own government to the unfolding tragedy.
"We felt a little bit like sitting ducks," Satchwell told Australia's 3AW radio station.
She went on to say she and others hid in a bathroom stall until hotel security came and escorted them out of the building, past corpses and into the street.
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