Satish Jacob and his cameraman Syed Nooh Nizami -- the only Indian crew stationed in Baghdad -- had a near escape when an American tank fired on the 15th floor of the Palestine Hotel, where they were staying, April 8.

Third Eye, for which they work, said in a statement on Wednesday that the two immediately rushed out to the hotel lobby.

The Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting, Ravi Shankar Prasad, rang up Third Eye office expressing concern about the fate of Jacob and the cameraman.

In a witness account to Doordarshan, Jacob said: "The situation is very serious. There is a complete silence in the city. Planes are flying all over the city. This has been the most dangerous day for the media in the last 20 days of the war; one after another three attacks on media. Al-Jazeera journalists were killed.

All the journalists panicked. The journalists are wounded and they are very angry and this has put a big question mark on the safety of journalists."