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Benazir Bhutto Assassinated in Pakistan
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| Last Edited | COSDem Dec 27, 2007 06:38pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Thursday, December 27, 2007 01:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By Griff Witte and Debbi Wilgoren
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, December 27, 2007; 8:35 AM
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Dec. 27 -- Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto was reportedly killed Thursday at a political rally, two months after she returned from eight years of exile, officials here said.
Bhutto was apparently shot at close range as she was leaving the rally in this garrison city south of Islamabad. Immediately after the shooting, a suicide bomber detonated explosives near her car, killing at least 15 other people.
Bhutto was rushed to a hospital with extensive wounds to her torso, her supporters said. Shortly after she arrived at the hospital, officials came out of the building and told her supporters that Bhutto was dead.
Also Thursday, a rooftop sniper opened fire on supporters of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif at a different pre-election rally in Rawalpindi, leaving four dead and at least five injured.
Bhutto's death would be a devastating development, coming 12 days before Pakistanis are set to vote in national parliamentary elections that have been marked by enormous political turmoil. President Pervez Musharaff declared a state of emergency in November -- a move which he said was to combat terrorism, but which was widely perceived as an effort to stave off legal challenges to his authority. U.S. military officials said last week that the terrorist group al-Qaeda had begun to focus its efforts in Pakistan. |
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