Truck bomber Attack On A Islamabad hotel
A suicide truck bomber attacked a Hotel from Islamabad killing 45 people and wounding more than 300 people. The Merriot Hotel was a the location for delegation meeting few hours later and so was equiped with high security. Even then A truck managed to crash into the hotel. The exploasives in the truck were so much that it created a 20 feet crater near the blast site. The Merriot hotel is on a brink of collapse and the casualties are expected more.
This attack comes as a setback for Pakistan because of their thinning relations with the US due to recent attacks by the latter in Pakistsan against some terroists.
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