Benazir Bhutto shot dead
December 27, 2007 19:02 IST
Former Pakistan premier Benazir Bhutto is dead. According to television news
reports Bhutto was hit by a bullet during a rally.
Initially reports said the Pakistan People's Party chief had escaped a second
bid on her life in 10 weeks when a suicide bomber blew himself up minutes after
she left the venue of an election rally in the garrison city of Rawalpindi,
killing at least 20 people and injuring many others.
Witnesses said a man rushed towards Bhutto's car as she was leaving the
sprawling ground, where she had addressed thousands of PPP supporters, and blew
himself up.
Several people who were around her car were blown to pieces. A television
reporter at the scene said the suicide bomber's head was found almost 70 feet
from the site of the blast.
Eyewitnesses said body parts were strewn across the area. Ambulances rushed
the injured from the spot to nearby hospitals.
Police officials said it was a suicide attack in which at least 20 people
were killed and many others injured.
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