09-22-2008, 09:01 PM
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Agencies | Islamabad
The Czech Ambassador to Pakistan was among those killed in the deadly suicide attack on the posh Marriott Hotel here, the Government said on Sunday, even as rescue workers pulled more bodies out of the wreckage of the building.Â
Czech envoy Ivo Zdarek was among the dead, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani told mediapersons after visiting the injured at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences.
"The Czech Ambassador has been identified. He is dead," Gilani said.
Zdarek, 47, had moved from Vietnam to Pakistan a month ago and was staying at the hotel. Police initially reported that Zdarek was missing after Saturday night's blast that killed at least 60 people and injured nearly 260.
The Czech Foreign Ministry said in a statement posted on its Website on Sunday that <b>Zdarek, 47, had been inside the hotel at the moment of the blast. It described him as an expert on Chinese studies who arrived in Islamabad only in August after completing his four-year mission as Ambassador in Vietnam</b>. He was married with two sons but was staying without his family at the Marriott, a favorite spot for foreigners and the Pakistani elite.
<b>This was described as the "biggest" bomb attack in Pakistan using 600 kg of deadly RDX-TNT cocktail</b> which killed 53 people including the Czech envoy and injured 266 others, the Government said, as the needle of suspicion in the Marriott Hotel suicide attack pointed towards the Taliban.
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pioneer.com
Agencies | Islamabad
The Czech Ambassador to Pakistan was among those killed in the deadly suicide attack on the posh Marriott Hotel here, the Government said on Sunday, even as rescue workers pulled more bodies out of the wreckage of the building.Â
Czech envoy Ivo Zdarek was among the dead, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani told mediapersons after visiting the injured at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences.
"The Czech Ambassador has been identified. He is dead," Gilani said.
Zdarek, 47, had moved from Vietnam to Pakistan a month ago and was staying at the hotel. Police initially reported that Zdarek was missing after Saturday night's blast that killed at least 60 people and injured nearly 260.
The Czech Foreign Ministry said in a statement posted on its Website on Sunday that <b>Zdarek, 47, had been inside the hotel at the moment of the blast. It described him as an expert on Chinese studies who arrived in Islamabad only in August after completing his four-year mission as Ambassador in Vietnam</b>. He was married with two sons but was staying without his family at the Marriott, a favorite spot for foreigners and the Pakistani elite.
<b>This was described as the "biggest" bomb attack in Pakistan using 600 kg of deadly RDX-TNT cocktail</b> which killed 53 people including the Czech envoy and injured 266 others, the Government said, as the needle of suspicion in the Marriott Hotel suicide attack pointed towards the Taliban.
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