A video broadcasted on Sunday of the Marriott Hotel bombing, showing that the attacker rammed the gates with his truck and then blew himself up minutes before the main blast.
Top interior ministry official Rehman Malik told a news conference that the driver apparently believed his huge truck, which had 600 kilos (1,300 pounds) of explosives inside, would be able to crash through the security barriers.
But the closed-circuit footage showed that it failed to get through a secondary barrier at the heavily guarded hotel.
The driver apparently could not convince the guards to let down that barrier and so then blew himself up. In shock, the guards are seen hesitating for a few moments before racing to put out the fire from that explosion.
The main explosion happened a few minutes later. There is no footage of that because the blast destroyed the camera, Malik said.
Top interior ministry official Rehman Malik told a news conference that the driver apparently believed his huge truck, which had 600 kilos (1,300 pounds) of explosives inside, would be able to crash through the security barriers.
But the closed-circuit footage showed that it failed to get through a secondary barrier at the heavily guarded hotel.
The driver apparently could not convince the guards to let down that barrier and so then blew himself up. In shock, the guards are seen hesitating for a few moments before racing to put out the fire from that explosion.
The main explosion happened a few minutes later. There is no footage of that because the blast destroyed the camera, Malik said.
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