Six arrested over hotel terror plot

Pakistan police have arrested six suspected Taliban militants who were wearing a suicide vest and carrying hand grenades allegedly on their way to launch an attack on a five-star hotel to kill Americans.

Among the militants arrested on the outskirts of Lahore was a 14-year-old boy and a prayer leader from Pakistan's Khyber tribal area near the Afghan border, according to police official Zulfikar Hameed.

They militants told police they were targeting Americans at the Pearl Continental hotel, he said.

"We think they were on their way to launch the attack," said Hameed. "They told us that Americans are responsible for the death of every innocent Muslim in the so-called war on terror."

Police seized 26 hand grenades and five detonators from the suspects, who were travelling by car and motorcycle.