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Two killed, more than 10 hurt in Islamabad restaurant blast

CNews ISLAMABAD: A blast hit a restaurant frequented by foreigners in Islamabad on Saturday evening, killing two and wounding more than 10 people, police and eyewitnesses said.
"There was an explosion inside the Luna Caprese Italian restaurant in the centre of the capital," police official Mohammad Ishtiaq told CNews.
"Two killed and more than 10 people have been injured and one wall of the restaurant has partly collapsed."
An CNews photographer at the scene said several of the injured who were stretchered out of the restaurant were foreigners.
Eyewitnesses also confirmed casualties.
"There are lots of injured people who have lost their limbs and legs, foreigners were inside. It's a very bad situation. We don't know what has happened," an employee at the restaurant told CNews by telephone.
"It was a very powerful blast. There is a lot of blood here, the walls are splattered with it. I see lots of human flesh," the employee said.

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