Death toll from Pakistan hotel blast reaches 53

 
Associated Press
Published: September 21, 2008

ISLAMABAD , Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistan's prime minister says the death toll from the huge truck bombing of a luxury hotel in Pakistan's capital has reached about 53.

Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani updated the toll after rescuers found more bodies in the charred shell of the Islamabad Marriott .

Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik said the Czech ambassador to Pakistan was also among the dead.

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