Officials: One Lebanese Injured in Attack on Pakistan Marriott Hotel
At least one Lebanese was injured on Saturday when a massive suicide truck bomb devastated the heavily guarded Marriott Hotel in Pakistan”s capital, hospital staff and other officials said.
They said at least 60 people were killed and about 250 were wounded, including four Britons, four Germans and one each from the U.S., Denmark, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Libya, Lebanon, Syria and Afghanistan.
The five-story Marriott had been a favorite place for foreigners as well as Pakistani politicians and business people to stay and socialize in Islamabad despite repeated militant attacks.
The attack came hours after new President Asif Ali Zardari — who faces a serious challenge in reining in al-Qaida and Taliban militants — delivered his first address to parliament, which is just a few hundred meters away.