British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Thursday visited the Taj and Trident Hotels and spent some time with the employees who helped in evacuating guests during the November 26 terror strikes.
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Thursday visited the Taj and Trident Hotels and spent some time with the employees who helped in evacuating guests during the November 26 terror strikes.
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Appreciative of the valour shown by the employees, Miliband said "the staff in this hotel (Hotel Taj) could have chosen to scramble to safety. Instead they, the police and emergency services represented here today chose to risk their own lives to shelter and protect people they hardly knew."
He praised the employees of the Taj hotel for evacuating and guiding people to safety at great personal risk during the terror attack.
The Foreign Secretary expressed similar sentiments when he visited the Hotel Trident where he had a closed-door meeting with Indian business leaders.
However, Miliband did not visit the Nariman House in Colaba or the Chhatrapati Shivaji Rail Terminus which were also sites of the terror attacks, they said.
The British Foreign Secretary was greeted at the Taj Hotel by the Ratan Tata, Chairman of Tata Sons, and was introduced to employees who survived the terror strikes.
The heritage wing of the Taj Hotel, where the stand-off between security forces and terrorists lasted close to 60 hours, continued to be closed to visitors and only the new wing of the iconic hotel has been opened for business.
Similarly, the Hotel Oberoi wing of the Hotel Trident, which bore the brunt of the attack, also remained closed.
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