'Large blast' in Marriott Hotel in Pakistan capital
A large explosion has rocked the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, causing many casualties, reports say.
The blast is reported to have happened in the area of the Marriott Hotel.
Reuters news agency quoted an unnamed police official as saying the explosion was caused by a suspected suicide bomber, but this has not been verified.
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- News Source: The Frontier Post | about 1 year agoPPP (SB), Human Rights activists and Taluka Coordination Council for NGOs representatives condemned the suicide attack on Merriot Islamabad and The Political and Social leaders while talking to this scribe on the eve of International Peace Day...
- News Source: The Frontier Post | about 1 year agoSenior Minister and PPP Provincial President Rahimdad Khan has strongly condemned the suicidal attack on Marriott Hotel Islamabad that claimed the lives of dozens of innocent people and caused injuries to hundreds of others. In a statement here, he...
- News Source: The News | about 1 year agoThe hotel was ruined following the deadly suicide attack on Saturday night. "I could build ten more such hotels but there is no alternative to human lives," Hashvani said. He said renovation of the hotel has been started and it would be completed in...
- News Source: Hindustan times | about 1 year agoFive Pakistani security personnel were killed and six others injured in a suicide attack in the troubled north-western Swat valley on Monday. A suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into a roadside checkpost in Madian town late tonight,...
- News Source: The Daily Telegraph | about 1 year agoFedayeen of Islam has claimed responsibility for the deadly bombing of Islamabad's Marriott Hotel in a telephone call to Dubai-based Al-Arabiya television, the channel said today. Its correspondent in the Pakistani capital said he received a text...
- News Source: Daily News & Analysis | about 1 year agoThe Marriott hotel, reduced to a burnt skeleton after a powerful suicide bombing claimed 53 lives Saturday, may not reopen with some experts suggesting it should be demolished. A suicide bomber drove a large truck full of explosives to its gates...
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- Blog Source: upcominghollywoodmovie.compakistan blast. Powerful blast in Islamabad. Blast outside Marriott hotel At least 17 killed 25, including foreigners, injured Blast site near President’s house Police suspect explosives-laden vehicle rammed into hotel ...
- Blog Source: www.alarabiya.netAn explosion killed five students at an Islamic school run by a pro-Taliban religious party near the Pakistani city of Quetta on Friday, police said. Quetta is the capital of Baluchistan, a southwestern province bordering Afghanistan, ...
- Blog Source: aangirfan.blogspot.comAllegedly, these boxes were moved into the hotel when Admiral Mike Mullen met Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and others in Islamabad. The boxes may have contained explosives? Sounds like 9 11. ...
- Blog Source: politisite.blogspot.comA suspected suicide attack caused a huge explosion outside the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, witnesses and police have said. "The explosion happened as a car reached the barricade outside the hotel," said a senior police official, ...
- Blog Source: www.nationalterroralert.comSeveral floors of the hotel are still on fire. The hotel is essentially destroyed, there are fears the structure will collapse due to fire and blast damage. Buildings blocks away were heavily damaged. Islamabad-Marriott-crater.jpg ...
- Blog Source: www.huffingtonpost.comIn January 2007, a security guard blocked a suicide bomber who triggered a blast just outside the Marriott, killing the guard and wounding seven other people. In July, a suicide bombing killed at least 18 people, most of them security ...
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- Video Source: youtube.comDozens die in Islamabad hotel ...Video Source: youtube.comwhat he called "the cancer of terrorism". Al Jazeera's Imran ...
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