Wed, June 10, 2009
UNITED NATIONS, June 9 (Xinhua) -- One United Nations staff member was killed after suicide attackers launched an assault Tuesday on a luxury hotel often used by foreigners in Peshawar city, an associate spokesperson for the secretary-general told Xinhua.
The name and position of the UN staff member has not been released because the family has not been notified yet, said Farhan Haq.
A suicide truck bomb ripped through the five-star hotel Pearl Continental killing 11 people and wounding 52 in the capital of a northwest Pakistani province plagued by Taliban violence, reports said.
No one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack but it has the markings of a Taliban attack on the luxury Marriott Hotel in Islamabad in September 2008 that killed 60 people.
