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SHOTLIST 1. Wide of charred facade of the Marriott hotel, debris in foreground 2. Destroyed cars in hotel car park 3. Rescue workers at scene 4. Legs of dead body sticking out of sixth floor window 5. Wide of the Marriott sign, smoke rising from building 6. Paramilitary soldiers standing outside hotel 7. Wide of people watching the smoke rising from the hotel 8. Pan from police tape and crater in ground to hotel 9. Police investigators at the scene 10. Various of the military bomb unit with forensic explosives detector machine 11. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Amanullah, Islamabad resident: "These blasts have put Pakistan in a very dangerous position. I was near here last night, I had a very lucky escape. (Question: What should the government do?) I want the government to control this, but they can't." 12. Various top shots of the Marriott hotel STORYLINE A charred facade of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad stood amid mounds of debris, early on Sunday morning, as Pakistanis came to terms with one of the fiercest extremist attacks in the nation's capital. A huge suicide truck bomb has devastated the heavily guarded Marriott Hotel in Pakistan's capital, on Saturday, killing nearly 40 people and wounding 250 in a reminder of the threat in the country considered a vital US alley. The blast left a vast crater some 30 feet (10 metres) deep in front of the main building. Rescuers ferried a stream of bloodied bodies from the gutted structure, then pulled back for fear that it could collapse. The resulting fire raged for hours, sending up a thick pall of smoke over the area. The bombing on Saturday at the upscale hotel was one of the largest attacks ever in Pakistan and came at a time of growing anger over a wave of cross-border strikes on militant bases by US forces in Afghanistan. The five-floor Marriott is a favourite place for foreigners as well as the Pakistani elite to stay and socialise, despite repeated militant attacks over the years. Police officials in the midst of the rescue operation said that at least 40 people were killed and many more feared lost in the rubble. However, a senior Interior Ministry official, said early on Sunday that he knew of only 38 confirmed deaths. One American was confirmed among the dead. Hospital staff and other officials said another 21 foreigners were among the injured, including four Britons, four Germans, two Americans and one each from Denmark, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Libya, Lebanon and Afghanistan. The Saudi ambassador said several staff from the kingdom's national airline were still missing. The bombing came just hours after President Asif Ali Zardari made his first address to Parliament, less than a mile (a little more than one kilometre) away from the hotel. Zardari reappeared after midnight on state television to condemn the "cowardly attack,." He said he understood the victims' pain because he had buried his own wife - assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto - in December. The head of the Interior Ministry, told The Associated Press that it was unclear who was behind the attack and that there had been no claim of responsibility, but that authorities had received intelligence that there might be militant activity due to Zardari's address to Parliament. Security had been tightened, he said. Many argue that the nearly 300-room hotel's location made it vulnerable. The hotel lies just off a busy thoroughfare, less than a mile (a little more than a kilometre) from the presidential offices and Parliament. The heavy security gate stood only 60 feet (18 meters) from the main building - well within the range of the blast wave. Amanullah, an Islamabad resident said he felt lucky to be alive. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/71c7f7dc3377bf6b2f3ef464791becd0 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork