Balfour Beatty exec caught in Mumbai siege

Balfour Beatty chief executive Ian Tyler was caught up in the terrorist attacks in Mumbai.

The attack left at least 172 people dead and hundreds wounded.

Tyler, 47, reportedly was staying with colleagues in the Oberoi Hotel in Mumbai when suspected terrorists armed with guns and grenades stormed the building. Tyler and his colleagues escaped the hotel soon after the attack and found safe haven at the British Embassy.

Several British nationals are understood to have been injured in the attacks.

Tyler was in Mumbai on business for about three days and was ready to leave for Thailand. He was not injured in the attack.

A company spokesperson told the news media that Tyler was safe and on his way home.

Employees of several construction firms doing business in Mumbai are said to be accounted for.

Employees with Cyril Sweett, Atkins, Lewis and Hickey, Infrastructure India, Gleeds and Mott MacDonald are all said to be safe and have not been injured, according to news reports.

Gleeds are working on a shopping centre in Thane, a suburb of Mumbai. Fourteen of its staff stayed in the Taj Mahal Hotel, one of the buildings which targeted in the attacks. They were due to return next week, but a spokesperson said the plans had been put on hold while they waited for advice from the Foreign Office.

Tyler, a director for Balfour Beatty since 1999, became chief executive in January 2005, having been chief operating officer since 2002 and prior to that, finance director. He joined Balfour Beatty in 1996 from the Hanson Group where he was finance director of ARC Ltd, one of its principal subsidiaries.

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