Crisis centre set up for Irish citizens after Mumbai violence

The Department of Foreign Affairs is to set up a crisis centre in Mumbai for Irish citizens caught up in the violence there.

Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin has instructed staff at the Irish embassy in New Delhi to travel to the city and establish a help centre at the Honorary Consulate.

At least 100 people have been killed and up to three hundred have been injured after a series of bomb blasts in the city.

At least one five-star hotel is still under siege, with a number of foreign tourists taken as hostages.

Students and teachers from a school in Offaly are among the Irish in the region, but the Department of Foreign Affairs say there are no indications there are any Irish casualties or hostages.