Death Toll in Pakistani Hotel Blast rises to 15

  • 12/15/2022
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 10, SPA -- The death toll from a suicide attack on a five-star hotel in the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar rose to at least 15 people Wednesday, including two U.N. employees, authorities said. Three suicide attackers shot their way onto the grounds of the Pearl Continental Hotel, which is often frequented by foreigners and diplomats and set off a car bomb Tuesday night. At least 64 were wounded, according to Qhazi Jamil, senior superintendent of Peshawar police. The dead U.N. employees were a Serbian national working for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and a UNICEF worker from the Philippines, according to a report of CNN. The assailants fired on security guards at the hotel's entrance gate and forced their way inside before setting off the bomb, Jamil said.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/673097

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