Suicide attackers shot their way past guards and set off a massive blast outside a luxury hotel, popular with foreigners and affluent Pakistanis, last night, killing at least 11 people and wounding 70, including a British aid worker.

SUICIDE attackers detonated a truck bomb yesterday outside a luxury hotel in Peshawar that US officials were in negotiations to make into an American consulate, officials said.

At least five people were killed and 25 injured today when a huge bomb exploded at a luxury hotel in the Pakistani city of Peshawar.