By KUNA
London : British detectives called in to investigate the death of Benazir Bhutto have found she died from the impact of a bomb blast and not from gunshot wounds, it was revealed here Friday.
Bhutto, the former Pakistani Prime Minister, was killed as she left a political rally in Rawalpindi on December 27 last year.
Her killer fired three shots before detonating an explosive belt.
Now a team of British police experts called in by the Pakistani government have agreed with the official verdict that she died after smashing her head on her car because of the force of the explosion and was not hit by any bullets, the satellite TV station “Sky News” quoted the police report as saying.
Scotland Yard was given almost unprecedented access to the forensic evidence.
It was the same team that dealt with the aftermath of the 7/7 bombings in London which killed 52 people and injured hundreds.
The Scotland Yard team found that none of the bullets hit Benazir Bhutto, although one passed through her hair and lifted her headscarf, the report went on.
She had been standing up with her head through the sunroof of her car, which had nine-inch thick armour plate.
The significance of the Scotland Yard findings is that they match those of the Pakistani government which came out within two days of her death.
The Metropolitan Police were invited to Pakistan by the authorities in January because of controversy about how Bhutto died.
The remit of the team was limited to establishing the cause of the death and identifying where the attackers were.
The Pakistani government has named a pro Al-Qaeda tribal militant leader Baitullah Mehsud, who is spearheading fighting against Pakistani forces in south Waziristan, as the mastermind of the assassination.