India | Updated Nov 29, 2008 at 07:12pm IST

Sabina Saikia's body recovered from Taj Hotel

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Mumbai: The dead body of Sabina Sehgal Saikia, a consulting editor with The Times of India and famous food critic, was recovered from The Taj Hotel on Saturday.

Her husband Shantanu Saikia said that he has had no contact with her since early on Thursday morning. He revealed that Sabina was on the sixth floor of the hotel when the terrorists attacked.

"I received the last SMS from her at 0130 hrs IST (Thursday). It her last SMS and she was very worried," Shantanu said. "The SMS was sent to Taj's PRO as well," he added.

About 20 minutes before that, hotel employees got an SMS from Sabina saying ''they are in my bathroom''.

Sabina had gone to Mumbai to attend a wedding and was staying at the Taj hotel's heritage wing.

The Saikias have two children — a 14-year-old daughter and an 11-year-old son.

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