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Benazir Bhutto Assassinated 2007 Today in History 27 Dec 16
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On December 27, 2007, opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated during a suicide bomb attack in Pakistan following a campaign rally. • STORYLINE: • Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto died on December 27th apparently after being shot and then attacked by a suicide bomber as she left a campaign rally, a party aide said. • At 6:16 p.m. she expired, said Wasif Ali Khan, a member of Bhutto's party who was at Rawalpindi General Hospital. • A senior military official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to comment, confirmed that Bhutto had died. • Rehman Malik, Bhutto's security adviser, said she was shot in the neck and chest during the attack. • AP Television footage shot at the scene of the blast showed injured people being carried away and dead bodies lying on the ground in the aftermath of the attack. • After Bhutto's death, her supporters at the hospital began chanting Dog, Musharraf, dog, referring to Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf. • Some people smashed the glass door at the main entrance of the emergency unit, others burst into tears. • At least 20 others were killed in the blast that took place as Bhutto left a political rally where she addressed thousands of supporters to canvas votes for January 8 parliamentary elections. • Bhutto served twice as Pakistan's prime minister between 1988 and 1996. She had returned to Pakistan from an eight-year exile on October 18. • Her homecoming parade in Karachi was also targeted by a suicide attacker, killing more than 140 people. On that occasion she narrowly escaped injury. • Later that evening Benazir Bhutto's body was moved by a crowd of supporters from a hospital in Rawalpindi. Bhutto's body was carried out of the hospital in a plain wooden coffin and put into a waiting ambulance. • On December 28th, hundreds of thousands of mourning Pakistanis, many wailing with grief, paid their last respects to former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto as she was buried beside her father at the mausoleum of the nation's most famous political dynasty. • An Islamic cleric led mourners in prayers as her plain wood coffin, draped in the red, green and black flag of her Pakistan People's Party was placed in a grave inside the vast, white marble mausoleum in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh in southern Sindh province near the Bhuttos' ancestral home. • People crammed inside the cavernous hall, throwing petals on the coffin. • Some wept, others chanted Benazir is alive, as her body was laid to rest. • • You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you... • Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork
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