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Benazir Bhutto assassinated
* Story Highlights
* NEW: Former PM Benazir Bhutto dead after attack,
her huband tells Geo TV
* NEW: Explosion rocks a Rawalpindi political
rally for Bhutto
* 4 Sharif supporters are dead in Islamabad
* Police say members of a rival political party
opened fire on a pro-Sharif rally
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistan's former Prime
Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in
the wake of a suicide bombing that killed at least 14
of her supporters, doctors, a spokesman for her party
and other officials said.
Bhutto suffered bullet wounds in the aftermath of the
bomb attack, TV networks were reporting.
Police warned citizens to stay home as they expected
rioting to break out in city streets as a shocked
Pakistan absorbed the news of Bhutto's assassination.
Video of the scene just moments before the explosion
showed Bhutto stepping into a heavily-guarded vehicle
to leave the rally.
Bhutto was rushed to Rawalpindi General Hospital --
less than two miles from the bombing scene -- where
doctors pronounced her dead. VideoWatch aftermath of
the attack. »
Former Pakistan government spokesman Tariq Azim Khan
said while it appeared Bhutto was shot, it was unclear
if the bullet wounds to her head and neck were caused
by a shooting or if it was shrapnel from the bomb.
Watch Benazir Bhutto obituary.
The bomber detonated as he tried to enter the rally
where thousands of people gathered to hear Bhutto
speak, police said.
The number of wounded was not immediately known.
However, video of the scene showed ambulances lined up
to take many to hospitals.
The attack came just hours after four supporters of
Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif died
when members of another political party opened fire on
them at a rally near the Islamabad airport Thursday,
Pakistan police said.
Several other members of Sharif's party were wounded,
police said.
Bhutto was participating in the parliamentary election
set for Jan. 8, hoping for a third term as prime
minister.
A terror attack targeting her motorcade in Karachi
killed 136 people on the day she returned to Pakistan
after eight years of self-imposed exile.
CNN's Mohsin Naqvi, who was at the scene of both
bombings, said Thursday's blast was not as powerful as
that October attack.
Thursday's attacks come less than two weeks after
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf lifted an
emergency declaration he said was necessary to secure
his country from terrorists.
CNN's Mohsin Naqvi contributes to this report
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