When you attack in Peshawar killed Russian.

The explosion of hotel Pearl Continental in Peshawar in northwest Pakistan killed Russian, announced on Wednesday, June 10, the newspaper The New York Times, referring to the police involved in the investigation of terrorist attack.

  Russian citizen, according to the interlocutors publications, worked for an international humanitarian organizations. Officially, the Russian embassy in Pakistan has not yet been confirmed, but has not denied reports of the deaths of Russian citizens in Peshawar. In the list of those killed, according to the police, also a Canadian citizen.

At the same time, AFP, referring to the UN, said that when the explosion killed two officers of the organization - a Serbian citizen Vorkapich Alexander (Aleksandar Vorkapic), worked in the Agency for Refugees, and the Filipino working for UNICEF.

Hotel Pearl Continental, considered one of the best in the city, officers stopped the UN and other international humanitarian organizations, who arrived in Pakistan to help the refugees.

As of Wednesday morning, rescue workers at the site of the explosion, and found 16 dead bodies, said police, adding that under the rubble could still be the victim. In the city delivered to 57 hospitals affected by the attack, among them foreign nationals.

Responsibility for the attack in Peshawar, had not yet assumed none of the force in the territory of Pakistan's extremist organizations. However, Pakistan's secret services, suggest that the bombing were militants linked to the Taliban. The blast at the hotel, on their release could be a response to large-scale operation carried out by government forces against the Taliban in Swat valley.