The US Embassy in Islamabad on Sunday warned its staff of a possible attack on Americans at a top hotel in Pakistan's ꦉcapital as the city was already on high alert following a ༒suicide bombing earlier in the week.
The US government is aware of information that “unknown individuals are po💃ssibly plotting to attack Americans at th🔯e Marriott Hotel in Islamabad sometime during the holidays", the embassy said in a security alert.
The advisory banned its American personnel from visiting the popular h𓄧oꩵtel over the holidays.
The US mission also urged all pe♒rsonnel to re🍸frain from non-essential travel in Islamabad during the holiday season.
The embassy directive came 🍨two days after a suicide bombing in a residential area of the capital killed a police officer and wounded ten others. The explosion happened when police stopped a taxi for inspection during a patrol.
According to the p𓃲olice, a rear seat passenger detonated ex﷽plosives he was carrying, blowing up the vehicle.
Militants with the Pakistani Taliban, who are separate from but allied with Afghanistan's rulers, later clai🎉med the 🃏attack.
Islamabad's administration has since put the city on high alert, banning public gatherings and processions, even as campaigns are ongoing for upcoming locaꦚl elections. Police have stepped upౠ patrols and established snap checkpoints to inspect vehicles across the city.
A suicide bombing targeted the capital's Marriott Hotel in Sept🍒ember 2008, in one of the deadliest such incidents in the capital.
Attacker🌱s drove a dump truck up to the hotel's gates before detonating💯 it, killing 63 people and wounding over 250 others.
