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Brits Want Diplomats' Kids Out of Volatile Pakistan

Spouses offered return to UK, too, after hotel bombing

By Ambreen Ali, Newser User

Posted Oct 1, 2008 10:48 AM CDT

(Newser) – Children of British diplomats stationed in Pakistan are returning home amid security concerns following the Marriott Hotel terrorist bombing in Islamabad last month. Britain will also allow spouses and other dependents to join the 60 kids as instability grows in the volatile nation, the Daily Telegraph reports. The departures are set for the coming days, and follow similar action by other diplomatic missions.

Pakistani women pray at the site of a massive blast at the Marriott hotel during a memorial ceremony in Islamabad last month. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Pakistani workers clean the debris from last month's terrorist bombing. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown shakes hands with Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari last month. British diplomats are sending their children home amid security concerns. (AP Photo/Stefan Rousseau, Pool)

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