Among the hundreds wounded and nearly 119 dead in the Mumbai massacre are three Americans, including two women from Nashville, Tennessee. The armed Islamic terrorists claimed they were going after US and British citizens, in their simultaneous attacks in hotels, restaurants, a train station and tourist sites in Mumbai.

Andi Varagona and a friend, both of Nashville, were in the Oberoi Hotel ballroom at about 11 p.m. local time Wednesday with a group of Americans, Australians and South Americans when gunmen burst in and opened fire. Varagona traveled to India last week with another Nashville woman for a business trip.

Varagona's husband, Santos Lopez, was at a family member's home working on his Thanksgiving Day turkey when he got a call from his wife in India.

Lopez told WKRN-Ch. 2 television news: "She said, 'I've been shot ... they came into the restaurant and they opened fire and I'm shot in the arm and the leg.' And at that moment, you know, my heart just froze." He was heading for the airport, after leaving the Indian Embassy in Washington, DC, on his way to see his wife.

Varagona, who changed her name to Rudrani Devi in 2002, is an alignment, meditation and yoga teacher. She runs Devi Clinic, a holistic health center on 12th Avenue South in Nashville, where she came in 1984 to pursue her love for music and film production.

According to her Internet profile, Varagona was first introduced to meditation in college. She said in her web site that "My production career of 19 years suddenly felt less fulfilling, and I began journeying for a new, more blissful path."