One United Nations staff member was killed after suicide attackers launched an assault Tuesday on a luxury hotel often used by foreigners in Peshawar city, an associate spokesperson for the secretary-general told Xinhua.

A man cries in a hospital after the bomb attack in a hotel in Peshawar June 9, 2009. At least 15 people were killed and 64 others were injured Tuesday evening when a blast hit a five-star hotel in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, according to local TV reports. [Xinhua]

The name and position of the UN staff member has not been released because the family has not been notified yet, said Farhan Haq.

A suicide truck bomb ripped through the five-star hotel Pearl Continental killing 15 people and wounding 64 in the capital of a northwest Pakistani province plagued by Taliban violence, reports said.

No one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack but it has the markings of a Taliban attack on the luxury Marriott Hotel in Islamabad in September 2008 that killed 60 people.