Benazir Bhutto assassinated at election rally

By IANS

Islamabad : Former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto died a gory death Thursday when a suicide bomber blew up at an election rally and a gunman then fired at her even as she lay bleeding.


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Bhutto, 54, who returned to her country only two months ago after eight years in exile, was injured when the attack took place at a Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) meeting at Liaqat Bagh in Rawalpindi, near here.

As panic swept the venue, with bodies strewn all around, a motorcycle rider sped past firing away, apparently pumping bullets at her neck, witnesses and party officials said.

A profusely bleeding Bhutto was rushed to a hospital but she died, PPP official Rehman Malik said.

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