Berlin - Germany set up a crisis office and sent a team of psychologists to India Thursday to counsel victims of the terrorist attacks which have killed at least 101 people in Mumbai.

Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier "most sharply" condemned the attackers.

At his ministry in Berlin, a crisis office was handling the German response, and extra staff were deployed to the German Consulate General in Mumbai.

Some of the western tourists holed up in the two hotels that were among the targets were German, but it was still not known Thursday if any German nationals had been killed.

The counsellors were sent to help both those caught up in the violence and their worried relatives, a now-standard move to prevent people suffering trauma from such experiences that can spoil the rest of their lives.

A Mumbai police official has said six foreigners were among the dead. (dpa)