It was shortly before 17 pm local time, three armed men stormed the Pearl Continental Hotel after first having opened fire on the building from the outside. The men should, according to the first data be taken to the hotel in the boat.
the coastal town of Gwadar, and a large number of police officers were sent to the site with support from the military and antiterrorstyrkor. Firefights went on for some hours inside the hotel then the armed men omringats was a staircase leading to the upper floor.
the 17-time Swedish time (20-time local) confirmed the authorities for CNN that the armed men had been shot. They had omringats when they were in a staircase that leads to the upper floor.
if a security guard at the entrance to the hotel should have been killed. Several people will also have been damaged.
95 per cent of the building is reported to have been vacated and the area around it has been locked by. According to pakistani Geo tv, all the guests have been evacuated.
a height in Gwadar and are frequented mostly by foreign guests.
According to the newspaper, there are no foreign guests at the hotel.
A group calling themselves Baluchistans’s liberation army has claimed the attack.
