Fire at Islamabad's Marriott hotel five months after bomb - National News Updates

ISLAMABAD, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Fire broke out at the Marriott Hotel in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, on Thursday, five months after a suicide truck bomber killed 55 people there.

"We got a phone call that there's fire in two storeys of the hotel. We alerted the fire brigades and they have sent fire engines," said police official Zahid Jan.

The cause was not known, he said.

A receptionist at the hotel said he could see smoke but declined further comment.
The hotel reopened in late December, just over three months after the Sept. 20 bomb attack blamed on Islamist militants. (Reporting by Zeeshan Haider; Editing by Robert Birsel and Sanjeev Miglani)

Source: Reuters