NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Two Nashville women are among those hurt in terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, that have killed 151 people.

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Santos Lopez, a Nashville country music producer, said his wife, Rudrani Devi, was having dinner at the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower Hotel in Mumbai Wednesday when armed gunmen stormed inside.

Two bullets hit Devi, one in her thigh and a second bullet pierced her arm and grazed her neck.

Devi called her mother in Knoxville to say that surgery to repair gunshot wounds in her arm and her thigh was successful, and she thought she was going to be OK. Devi said she lost a lot of blood and was in pain, but receiving good care.

"I could feel the tension in her voice," said Lopez, who received a call from his wife late Wednesday as she was being wheeled into surgery. "She said, 'We were ambushed and we were shot.' I said, 'Are you OK?' She said, 'I'm shot in the arm and the leg.'"

Devi, who is originally from Oak Ridge, owns a body alignment shop in Nashville and runs a holistic health clinic in the 12 Avenue South district. She was in Mumbai for a meditation convention when the attack occurred.

"My God, I cried more than I cried in my entire life," said Lopez. "You tend to believe that things that in the world happen to other people, until it happens to you."

Lopez and Devi have been married for five years.

"I always told her, 'I will die for you. I will take a bullet for you,'" Lopez said. 'And I just wasn't there to do it."

Celeste Varagona, Devi's mother, who lives in Knoxville, said her daughter would be in the hospital for four to five days.

"She was having dinner in the hotel restaurant and lobby. The restaurant was in the lobby. Apparently the terrorist just came in and started shooting," said Varagona.

Devi's family said their daughter hid under the table before crawling to a safer location to wait for help. Kitchen staff picked her up and put her in a taxi that took her to a hospital.

Lopez has been working with Tennessee Rep. Jim Cooper's office to have Devi safely brought back to the U.S. The victim's husband left for India on Thursday to be with his wife as she recovers.

Nashville Author Hurt In Attacks

Devi was also traveling with a friend, Linda Ragsdale, from Nashville, who was shot in the back. The Associated Press reported that Ragsdale underwent surgery for bullet wounds.

Ragsdale's sister Diane Garrison said Friday that Linda's husband, Ben, had recently arrived in India to see his wife.

Garrison said the family did not know the extent of her sister's injuries and were hoping to get an update soon.

Ragsdale is a children's author and illustrator who teaches and demonstrates art in schools and libraries.

Devi and Ragsdale were on a spiritual retreat with the Synchronicity Foundation.

Virginia Man, Daughter Killed In Attacks

A father and his teenage daughter from a Virginia community that promotes a form of meditation were among those killed in the terrorist attacks in India, a colleague said Friday.

Alan Scherr, 58, and daughter Naomi, 13, were in a cafe Wednesday night in Mumbai when they were killed, said Bobbie Garvey, a spokeswoman for the Synchronicity Foundation. The U.S. State Department confirmed their deaths on Friday morning.

The Scherrs were among 25 foundation participants in a spiritual program in Mumbai. Four others on the mission were injured in the cafe attack in the luxury Oberoi hotel, Garvey said, including two women from Tennessee.

Members of the New York-based Chabad-Lubavitch ultra-Orthodox Jewish movement were anxiously awaiting the names of victims at its local headquarters in Mumbai, which was one of 10 sites attacked.

Among the three people rescued from the center Thursday morning was a toddler identified as the 18-month-old son of the couple running the center, Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife, Rivka.

The whereabouts of the couple, who moved to India from Brooklyn, are still unknown. The bodies of five hostages were found by Indian commandoes early Friday night.

The Virginia father was a Maryland native and a former college professor who lived at the Synchronicity sanctuary about 15 miles southwest of Charlottesville.

"I would call them bright stars," Garvey said of the Scherrs. "Extraordinary, bright, very positive -- examples to the world."

The Scherrs had lived at the foundation all of Naomi's life, Garvey said. Alan Scherr's wife, Kia, and her two sons did not travel with them to India.

According to the foundation's Web site, the community is led by Master Charles, a former leading disciple of Swami Paramahansa Muktananda. He is described on the Web site as "one of the most popular spiritual teachers from India to build a following the West in the 1970s." He taught a form of yoga.

Garvey identified the Synchronicity injured as Helen Connolly of Toronto, who was grazed by a bullet; Devi and Ragsdale, both of Nashville, who both underwent surgery for bullet wounds; and Michael Rudder of Montreal, who remains in intensive care after being shot three times. Other members of the mission narrowly escaped the attack.

The State Department set up a call center for Americans concerned about family members who may be in Mumbai. The number is 1-888-407-4747.