Indian commandos have ended the siege of a Jewish centre in Mumbai, storming the building and recovering the bodies of five hostages, while fighting continued at a luxury hotel elsewhere in the city.
The siege at the Nariman House ended on Friday, the private NDTV news channel said, two days after attackers carried out a series of co-ordinated attacks across India's financial capital.
Al Jazeera's Matt McClure, reporting from outside the Nariman House in south Mumbai, said several gunmen have been killed in the assault by the security forces .
"Now we are told they [security forces] are slowly moving room-to-room there to make sure there are no booby traps," he said.
Raging battle
The bodies of five hostages were recovered from the building, an Israeli emergency medical crew that entered the building after the raid, said.
Among the bodies were those of Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg, who ran the centre, and his wife, the Chabad Lubavitch organisation said.
A day earlier, two workers and the rabbi's son had escaped from the building.
The battle at the building that houses the headquarters of Chabad Lubavitch, included a team of at least nine commandos rappelling onto the roof from helicopters. Several large explosions were also heard.
Elsewhere in the city, gunfire and grenade blasts were heard at the Taj Mahal hotel and security forces at another hotel, the Trident-Oberoi, found 24 bodies after gaining control of the building.
More than 150 people are now known to have been killed since the attackers launched a series of assaults across Mumbai on Wednesday night.
Indian troops earlier took control of the Trident-Oberoi hotel, which had also been the scene of a hostage standoff, killing two attackers, the chief of India's national security guard said.
"We are just now sanitising each and every room," J K Dutt said.
Some frightened civilians inside the hotel are refusing to leave their rooms, he said.
Twenty-four bodies were found inside the hotel, Hasan Ghafoor, Mumbai's police chief, said.
Meanwhile, at the Taj Mahal hotel at least one gunman was said to still be inside.
"The Oberoi-Trident is completely clear, there is one terrorist left in the Taj who is giving us trouble and he could hold hostages and that is why we are very cautious," Gafoor said.