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Bodies of foreign tourists arrive in Islamabad

2013-06-24 86 Dailymotion

The bodies of nine foreign tourists killed in Pakistan's highland region arrive in Islamabad on Sunday.<br/> <br />One Chinese climber who escaped the attack also landed at the military airport and was greeted by a diplomat from China.<br/> <br />Pakistani Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan described the attack as a tragedy.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE)(Urdu) PAKISTANI INTERIOR MINISTER CHAUDHRY NISAR ALI KHAN SAYING:<br/> <br />"This is a huge tragedy, not only for the victims' home countries, but also for Pakistan."<br/> <br />The bodies of the five Ukrainians, three Chinese and Russian, killed in the night-time raid on a mountaineering base camp, were taken to a morgue at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences.<br/> <br />Police said a 15-strong gang wearing uniforms used by a local paramilitary force attacked the group at a base camp used by hikers scaling the Nanga Parbat peak early Sunday morning.<br/> <br />A U.S. official said one of the victims also had a US passport.<br/> <br />The attack was among the worst o

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