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US bars staff from visiting Islamabad's Marriott Hotel citing 'possible attack'
The US embassy in Pakistan on Sunday barred its authorities personnel from travelling Islamabad’s Marriott Hotel, bringing up the opportunity of an “assault”. Pakistan’s capital became already located on excessive alert following a suicide bombing in advance this week.
In a protection alert, the United States authorities stated it’s miles privy to facts that “unknown people are likely plotting to assault Americans on the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad someday in the course of the holidays”. It additionally advised all employees to chorus from non-vital and unofficial tour in Islamabad at some stage in the vacation season.
The alert follows a suicide bombing in a residential place days ago, which killed a police officer and injured ten others. The duty for the assault became reportedly claimed via way of means of the militants of Pakistani Taliban, who’re become independent from however allied with Afghanistan’s rulers. Since then, Islamabad’s management has positioned the town on excessive alert, banning public gatherings and processions. Patrolling has been stepped up and snap checkpoints set up to check out vehicles.
Marriott Hotel became hit via way of means of a suicide bombing in September 2008, in one of the deadliest such incidents withinside the capital that killed sixty three humans and wounded over 250 others.
