Gunshots broke out and the crowd in the famed Taj Mahal hotel panicked,but five excruciating hours later, a private South African securityguard said his team succeeded in evacuating about 120 guests. We heard some gun shots. We barricaded the restaurant and we movedeverybody into the kitchen, recalled Faisul Nagel, who happened to beon the 25th floor of the hotel tower when the attack began.