(CNN) -- Manuela Testolini and her colleagues had just sat down to dinner at the Oberoi hotel restaurant in Mumbai, India, on Wednesday when the sound of gunfire erupted outside. Manuela Testolini was in Mumbai on business when a series of brazen attacks broke out. At first, they didn't know what it was. Then, one of Testolini's colleagues saw a man get shot to death outside the restaurant's front door, and everyone started to run. "We left everything behind, including purses and phones," said Testolini, the ex-wife of music icon Prince and founder of In A Perfect World children's foundation. "There was a lot of panic."
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Manuela Testolini says colleague saw man killed outside restaurant
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Prince's ex-wife says gunmen pursued her, diners as they fled
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Nearby, CNN employee hid from gunfire under bed at Taj
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Yasmin Wong ran past bodies in hotel's halls as she sought exit
@placeholder, a CNN employee who was staying in the Taj, said she hid under her bed for several hours after she was awoken by gunfire.