A chartered surveyor from Putney was shot in the Mumbai massacre earlier this week.

Intelligence services believe that around 10 men, armed with Kalashnikov rifles, grenades and plastic explosives arrived in the city on Wednesday.

Harnish Patel, 29, was shot in the leg at the Leopold cafe on the first night of the attacks.

In an interview with the Independent on Sunday, he said: “I was literally one drink in. A gunman walked in and that was it.

“I was in the bar and we had one of those jugs with taps that you drink out of.

“And suddenly it just shattered, and you could hear a sound like fire crackers.

“I was so luck. He just let loose. It’s unimaginable. Luckily he didn’t keep his finger down because if he did, I'd be dead.”

Estimates of the number of dead and injured reach as high as more than 200 people dead and 300 wounded.

Around 100 British tourists and workers were caught up in what one of the terrorists told Indian police officers was planned to be another 9/11.