No evidence of UK India terror link

The massacre at locations across Mumbai claimed the lives of 195 people - including one Briton - and left 295 wounded, officials said. But Foreign Office said it has "no evidence" that any of the terrorists were British.

Indian commandos killed the last of the gunmen holed up in the 565-room hotel, the authorities said, and guests who had cowered in upstairs rooms were led to safety as the grim task of removing bodies began.

Briton Richard Farah described seeing trails of blood, broken glass and shoes as commandos led him out of the fire-damaged luxury hotel.

Mr Farah hid his passport inside his false leg and spent about 25 hours barricaded in his room thinking he was "a goner", he told Sky News. "I had hidden my passport in my leg, in the lining of the leg. If they had come to get me they wouldn't have found a passport." The terrorists were reported to be seeking British and American passport holders.

After arriving at Heathrow Mr Farah said: "In the last few hours there were so many explosions and the floors shook. I said 'I'm a goner' because it was right below me."

Mr Farah said commandos eventually kicked down his door and led him down the stairs. He said he saw blood on every floor.

The nationality of the terrorists is still unclear although Indian officials said the sole surviving gunman was from Pakistan. Reports from India on Friday suggested that UK-born Muslims were involved in the massacre but a spokesman for the Foreign Office said: "We have spoken to Indian authorities at a high level and they have said that there is no evidence that any of the terrorists, either captured or dead, are British."

Reports on Saturday said seven of the gunmen had British links and quoted Indian sources claiming that suspects from Leeds, Hartlepool and Bradford as well as British-born Pakistanis were involved.

Vilasrao Deshmukh, the chief minister of Maharashtra state - of which Mumbai is the capital - was reported on Friday to have said that two Pakistanis of British descent were among those arrested. The Foreign Office spokesman said Mr Deshmukh "said no such thing either publicly or privately".