Seven dead, 34 injured in Peshawar hotel blast


At least seven people were killed and 34 others wounded in a huge bomb blast at a five-star hotel in Peshawar Tuesday, officials said. It was the latest in a series of attacks on urban centres in country in what officials have said are revenge for a military offensive in tribal areas against Taliban rebels. The blast hit the luxury hotel in the high-security Khyber Road area of Peshawar, and fire swept through the building. “Seven people are dead and 34 injured,” senior district

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