Brooke Satchwell in Mumbai

Australian actress Brooke Satchwell has shared her account from the Mumbai terrorist attacks with 3AW's Neil Mitchell.

The former Neighbours star - who is in India on a three-week film shoot - twas in the Taj hotel's ground-floor bathroom when she heard gunfire in the lobby outside.

Satchwell said terrified guests locked themselves in toilet cubicles as dead bodies lay outside and "people were being shot in the hallways".

"The staff let us hide in a service cupboard between the two bathrooms. We sat in there listening to maching gun fire," Satchwell said.

"Two of the male staff were sticking their heads out to see what was going on, which was absolutely terrifying."

"They were coming back and reporting that there was a dead body outside the bathroom and that they were seeing people being shot in the hallways."

"There was a lot of confusion, no one really knew what was going on and we all felt a bit like sitting ducks."

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