Sabina Sehgal Saikia still missing in Taj terror attack
Sabina Sehgal Saikia, the resident food critic of India’s largest selling English newspaper The Times of India, is still missing, 48 hours after the hostage crisis began at The Taj Mahal hotel in Bombay.
Delhi-based Sabina was in Bombay for the wedding reception of fellow Times editor Bachi Karkaria’s son on Wednesday. She returned to her suite in The Taj early complaining of fatigue, according to a report in the newspaper but has not been heard from since Thursday morning.
“I received the last SMS from her at 0130 hrs IST (Thursday). It her last SMS and she was very worried,” her husband Shantanu Saikia said. “The SMS was sent to Taj’s PRO as well.”
About 20 minutes before that, hotel employees had got an SMS from Sabina saying: ”they are in my bathroom”.
Accordingto one report from Internet Sabina was on the sixth floor of the hotel.
Talking to this newspaper, her husband said that the wing she was staying in was the first to be attacked by the terrorists. The room was among the first ones that caught fire.
She was continuously sending messages to her family and friends. She was hiding under her bed and had closed the lights of her room. Her last message was a frightening one saying “They are in my bathroom”. After this SMS to her husband no call or message got her reply.
Her husband said he tried to call her several times but the phone was switched off.
Mobile telephone records shows that the last signals from her mobile was received from a place named Raigarh .
I pray for her safety.