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Jackson Heights business owner Harshit Chugh woke up Wednesday morning to find that Mumbai, the commercial capital of his home country of India, was under siege.

“First thing I woke up this morning, I put the TV on, I see there's gunshots in Mumbai going on,” said Chugh.

Gunmen had carried out coordinated attacks that would kill more than 100 people and injure at least 240. Their targets included a hospital, a train station, a restaurant catering to tourists and two luxury hotels where an unknown number of foreigners were taken hostage.

A group of suspected Muslim militants took responsibility for the attacks.

“It scares us because since we travel there and we stay in these kinds of hotels. Even in these high-end hotels, when these things happen it scares us,” said Chugh.

Kundan Nayak, another New Yorker, was planning a phone call to his family Wednesday to make sure they were okay. He said they were used to such attacks.

India has seen a string of terror attacks in recent years. In 2006, bombings in Mumbai left nearly 200 people dead.

But Nayak said Wednesday’s attack was different.

“This is really bad. They took a different approach, looks like, and it’s going to be worse,” said Nayak. “They took a different approach and I don't know what will come out from this.”

The attacks continued throughout the day, with gunfire erupting from the Taj Mahal and Oberoi hotels well into the darkness. Foreigners were said to be the prime targets.

“It’s kind of scary. We've stayed at the Oberoi so many times,” said Melinda Gaonkar, who last visited India in February. “My reaction to it is that the smaller scale attacks haven't really been addressed.”

While speaking about threats to the city's subway system Wednesday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg touched on the attacks happening on the other side of the globe.

"What we have to do tonight is send our prayers to those in Mumbai," he said.

President-elect Barack Obama said in a statement that his “thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their families, and the people of India. These coordinated attacks on innocent civilians demonstrate the grave and urgent threat of terrorism…. We stand with the people of India, whose democracy will prove far more resilient than the hateful ideology that led to these attacks."

Officials in India said Wednesday night that they killed about a half-dozen militants and took many more into custody.