Sunday, September 21, 2008

Videos From The Marriott Bomb Attack In Pakistan

Marriott Hotel, Islamabad, Pakistan

Official: Hotel Blast 'Biggest Attack' In 7 Years For Pakistan
-- CNN


ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- More than 1,300 pounds of explosives were packed into a construction truck that detonated outside an Islamabad hotel, killing 57 people, including two Americans and a diplomat, officials said Sunday.

Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said the Saturday attack at the Marriott Hotel "is the biggest attack, volume-wise" in Pakistan in seven years.

Two American military personnel who worked for the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad were among those killed, the U.S. military said. A Lithuanian and the Czech Republic's ambassador to Pakistan, Ivo Zdarek, also were among the fatalities, police superintendent Sheikh Zubair said.

The suicide truck blast injured 266 people, including 11 foreigners, according to Malik. Video Watch guards scatter after an explosion

British Airways temporarily suspended its flights to Islamabad as a result of the security situation, according to an airline spokeswoman who did not want to be named. A Sunday night flight has been canceled, and the airline is reviewing its operations for later in the week.

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