BREAKING: Pakistan's Bhutto Killed by Bombing

by Rob Walker | December 27, 2007 at 05:37 am
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Bhutto with her party leader moments before death.

Bhutto with her party leader moments before death.

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This is just incredible, Bhutto was assasinated this morning at a campaign rally.

Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in a suicide bombing that also killed at least 20 others at a campaign rally, a party aide and a military official said.

"At 6:16 p.m. she expired," said Wasif Ali Khan, a member of Bhutto's party who was at Rawalpindi General Hospital where she was taken after the attack.

A senior military official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment, confirmed that Bhutto had died.

Her supporters at the hospital began chanting "Dog, Musharraf, dog," referring to Pakistan's president Pervez Musharraf. Some of them smashed the glass door at the main entrance of the emergency unit, others burst into tears.

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LoopZilla

Confirmed by the BBC

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raja1234

yes... just now ... I heard this news in NDTV india. 

Jordan Yerman
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at 06:17 on December 27th, 2007

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