Indian soldiers keep watch on the Taj Mahal hotel where gunmen were holed up today in Mumbai, India. Black-clad commandos raided two hotels to try to free hostages Thursday.

Mumbai, India ? Indian Army commandos struggled all day Thursday and into the early hours of today to regain control of two luxury hotels and a Jewish center in India’s commercial capital, battling armed assailants in a group that Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said was “based outside the country.”

The coordinated attacks left at least 125 people dead and more than 320 wounded, authorities said. Dozens of people remained trapped in the hotels, though it was unclear how many gunmen were inside.

Indian police and terrorism experts said they were uncertain who had carried out the attack, but Singh used phrases usually taken here to point to Pakistan. usain Haqqani, Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States, said his government condemned the attacks in Mumbai.

Arriving ashore in what police said were at least two rubber dinghies, groups of college-aged men Wednesday roamed Mumbai with automatic assault rifles and backpacks filled with ammunition and explosives. The attackers struck targets in addition to the hotels and the Jewish center, including a movie theater, a hospital, a railway station, a cafe and several other sites.

A British businessman, Rakesh Patel, who escaped the Taj Mahal hotel, said two men with a machine gun forced 15 hostages onto the hotel roof and told them, “they wanted anyone with British or American passports.”

In Washington, State Department spokesman Robert McInturff said three Americans were among those injured. He said there was no indication that any U.S. citizens had been killed.

Officials said eight Israelis and a young American rabbi and his wife were held hostage at the Mumbai headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch, an Orthodox Jewish outreach group. As day broke today, commandos were dropping on the five-story center from a helicopter as sharpshooters opened fire.