Suicide Bomber in Pakistani Hotel Killed UN Workers

Another crime against humanity. So sad with this failed state of Pakistan.

Militants drove a truck packed with explosives into a luxury hotel in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar where dozens of United Nations officials were gathered, killing one relief worker and several other people.

More than 40 others were also injured in the blast late yesterday at the five-star Pearl Continental Hotel, state-run media reported. Television images showed a shattered wreck of twisted steel and collapsed concrete slabs, as bloodied guests and workers staggered to waiting ambulances.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called it a “heinous terrorist attack which no cause can justify.” Aid workers coordinating the relief effort for about 2 million people driven from their homes by fighting in the Swat Valley were at the hotel at the time of the blast.