5-star hotel raid kills 18 in Pakistan
China Daily | Updated: 2009-06-11 07:55
Pakistani rescuers and security officials gather in front of the destroyed five-star Pearl Continental hotel a day after a suicide blast attack in Peshawar yesterday. AFP |
PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Investigators searched a wrecked luxury hotel in northwestern Pakistan for evidence yesterday after a bold suicide bombing killed 18 people, including aid workers, in what the UN condemned as a "heinous terrorist attack."
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