By IRNA,
Islamabad : Pakistan’s Interior Advisor Monday blamed a banned extremist group for the deadly truck suicide bomb attack on Hotel Marriot in September.
The devastating attack on September 20th had killed over 60 people, including the Czech ambassador, two US defence officials and several foreigners, and injured some 250 others.
“Lashkar-e-Jhangi group was behind the suicide truck bombing,” Interior Advisor Rehman Malik told the parliament.
Malik said that the explosive-laden truck was brought from the city of Jhang in Punjab province.
He said that two persons who facilitated the attacks have been arrested from the city of Toba Tek Singh in Punjab.
A new group ‘Fidayen-e-Islam’ had claimed responsibility for the attack and had also warned more attacks on foreigners.