It was on the third floor of the hotel that the Major led a team of 10 men, where the found the men holed up in a room with women being held as hostages.
Locating the terrorists on the third floor In the ensuing firefight, one of the commandos was hit and brutally wounded, Major Unnikrishnan arranged for him to be vacated before moving forward, regardless of his own safety, chasing the terrorists, who had fled to another floor. In the encounter that followed, he was ambushed and shot in the back, succumbing to his injuries.
