Four foreigners killed in Pakistan hotel blast
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Four foreigners, two Americans, a Czech and a Vietnamese national, were killed in a suicide truck bomb attack on a hotel in the Pakistani capital, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday.
In all 53 people were killed and 266 were wounded, top ministry official Rehman Malik told a news conference. Eleven foreigners were among the wounded in the Saturday evening attack on the Marriott Hotel, he said.
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