Friday, it was reported that among the people killed in the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, were also two Americans, father and daughter from a Virginia community advocating a form of meditation.

Bobbie Garvey, a spokeswoman for the Synchronicity Foundation, revealed that Alan Scherr, 58, and his 13-year-old daughter Naomi were in cafe in Mumbai Wednesday night when they were killed, while Friday morning, the United States State Department confirmed the two persons’ deaths.

The two were among 25 foundation participants of a spiritual mission held in Mumbai, Garvey having further stated that four others from the program had suffered injuries as a result to the attack in the Oberoi hotel’s cafe, of whom two were women from Tennessee.

The based in New York City Chabad-Lubavitch ultra-Orthodox Jewish spiritual movement has one of its headquarters in Mumbai, which was among the 10 locations that the terrorist attacks targeted. Thursday morning, an 18-month-old young boy was rescued at the headquarters, who turned out to be the son of the couple running the program, Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and wife Rivka.

Currently, there is no information on where the toddler’s parents are.

Friday night, Indian commandoes found the bodies of five hostages at the movement’s center in Mumbai.

Alan Scherr was a former college professor who had lived with his daughter at the Synchronicity sanctuary about 15 miles southwest of Charlottesville ever since the girl was born.

The Virginia community is led by Master Charles, former leading disciple of Swami Paramahansa Muktananda, according to the foundation's Web site.

Bobbie Garvey informed that the injured at the Synchronicity center were Helen Connolly of Toronto, Rudrani Devi and Linda Ragsdale of Nashville, both of whom underwent surgery for their bullet wounds and Michael Rudder of Montreal, who was in intensive care after he suffered three bullet wounds.