Islamabad: An explosion tore through a small hotel in Pakistan`s capital late Thursday, wounding at least five people, police said. Islamabad police chief Mohammed Binyamin said an initial investigation indicated the explosion was caused by a gas leak, not by a bomb. The blast took place on the fourth floor of a hotel on the main commercial street in Islamabad, blowing out windows and throwing chunks of concrete onto cars in the parking lot in front of the building.
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