PESHAWAR, Pakistan ,June 25, Reuter; A powerful bomb exploded in a small Peshawar hotel on Saturday, killing 13 people in an attack Pakistan said was carried out by the Soviet backed Afghan government.

The high intensity bomb destroyed the two upper floors of the: three story Prince Hotel in the capital of Pakistan’s northwest frontier province when it exploded at 4:15 a.m., police said.

Four people were wounded and police said the death toll could climb.

Article extracted from this publication >> July 1, 1988