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Hotel on fire again

ISLAMABAD - Fire broke out at Marriott Hotel in the Pakistani capital yesterday, five months after a suicide truck bomber killed 55 people there.

ISLAMABAD - Fire broke out at Marriott Hotel in the Pakistani capital yesterday, five months after a suicide truck bomber killed 55 people there.

Top administrator Kamran Lashari said the fire was apparently caused by an electrical short-circuit. Marriott reopened in December - three months after the September 20 bomb attack blamed on Islamist militants. - Reuters

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