Hotel bombed in Peshawar, Pakistan

The attack on the Pearl Continental Hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan, destroyed a number of vehicles in addition to badly damaging the hotel.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

The Pearl Continental is a heavily fortified and secured hotel commonly used by foreigners and dignitaries in Peshawar, Pakistan. The suicide bombing there is the latest in a series of attacks in the country’s major cities.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Tariq Hussein, a Pearl Continental Hotel driver, lies in the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, where he is being treated for injuries sustained from the bombing at the hotel.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

The body of Perseveranda So, UNICEF’s chief of education in Pakistan, who was one of two United Nations employees killed in the blast at the Pearl Continental Hotel in Peshawar. So, who had worked for the agency since 1994, had toured displacement camps in Mardan earlier in the day.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

An explosion at the Pearl Continental in Peshawar, Pakistan, heavily damages the left side of the building. The hotel is commonly used by foreigners and dignitaries and is heavily fortified with barriers and security personnel.  (Mohammad Sajjad / Associated Press)

Pakistani police gather at the five-star hotel after a bomb blast. At least 11 people were killed and 50 others injured.  (Tariq Mahmood / AFP/Getty Images)

Emergency crews at the Pearl Continental hotel, the target of a suicide truck-bomb attack.  (Mohammad Sajjad / Associated Press)

The bomb blast wounded at least 50 people. Pakistani television reported that many of the injured were hotel workers.  (Mohammad Sajjad / Associated Press)

A man injured in the hotel bombing leaves a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan.  (Mohammad Sajjad / Associated Press)

Witnesses say the blast occurred in the hotel’s parking lot.  (Mohammad Sajjad / Associated Press)

Rescue workers carry an injured man from the bomb blast at the hotel.  (Tariq Mahmood / AFP/Getty Images)

Emergency crews are seen next to the rubble of the partly collapsed hotel.  (Mohammad Sajjad / Associated Press)