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Archive for June, 2009

Another Big Bang in PC Hotel, 19 Dead 57 were injured in Peshawar.

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The death toll from a suicide blast at a luxury hotel Peshawar city has risen to 19, while 57 people were injured, a police official says. Early reports suggest at least two men shot their way through a security barrier and rammed a pick-up truck packed with explosives into the five-star Pearl Continental hotel late Tuesday, causing massive devastation.

Three more dead bodies including the body of a police official were recovered from the debris this morning (Wednesday),” Abdul Ghafoor Afridi, a senor police official in Peshawar, told AFP. The number of casualties could rise as we fear that some people are still trapped under the debris. One portion of the hotel was totally destroyed, he added. Three people including a manger of the hotel are dead and two foreign United Nations workers, Serbian Aleksandar Vorkapic and Filipina Perseveranda were also killed. Australia’s Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said the high commission was checking to see if Australians had been hurt, but it was unlikely “on the basis of information we have”.

It’s a terrible attack we obviously condemn it. The massive bomb was hidden in a delivery truck and was driven up to the five-star Pearl Continental hotel in the high-security Khyber Road area of Peshawar and detonated outside, causing massive devastation.

We know that Indian Agencies are providing full support to the terrorists to destabilize our country we also know that Israelites are also behind the veil with Indian Agencies as usual.