Pakistan Hotel Suicide Blast Kills 11, Including UN Aid Worker

A United Nations worker and as many as 10 other people were killed in a bomb attack on a hotel popular with foreigners and well-to-do Pakistanis in Peshawar, in the country’s northwest, said media reports and the UN.

[efoods]Television pictures showed the front of the five-star Pearl Continental Hotel a shattered wreck of twisted steel and collapsed concrete slabs, as bloodied guests and workers staggered to waiting ambulances.

Suicide attackers in a pickup truck entered the hotel compound spraying security guards with gunfire before slamming the vehicle into the building and detonating the charge, Agence France-Presse reported. No one claimed immediate responsibility for the blast, according to news agency reports.

The attack is the seventh deadly bombing in Peshawar in a month, as fears grow that Taliban militants are exacting revenge for a punishing six-week military offensive against them in three northwest districts, AFP said.

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