Benazir Bhutto, former Pakistani Prime Minister and democracy campaigner, killed in a suicide attack.
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is reported to have been killed in a suicide attack at a political rally in the city of Rawalpindi. Atleast 30 people died in the attack, local reports say.
Bhutto was wounded in the neck shortly after a bomb blast as she was leaving a Pakistan People's Party rally, held ahead of elections scheduled in January.
According to Wasif Ali Khan, a member of Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party, she died at 18:16 (13:16 UTC).
Bhutto was born on June 21, 1953 in Karachi, Pakistan. She served two times as Prime Minister of Pakistan. - By Wikinews
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She was the eldest child of former premier Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a Pakistani of Sindhi extraction, and Begum ("Lady") Nusrat Bhutto, a Pakistani of Iranian-Kurdish extraction. Her paternal grandfather was Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto who came to Larkana Sindh before partition from his native town of Bhatto Kalan which was situated in the Indian state of Haryana.
Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on December 27, 2007 in a combined suicide bomb attack and shooting during a political rally of the Pakistan Peoples Party in the town of Rawalpindi. Ex-government spokesman Tariq Azim Khan said that, although it appeared that she'd been shot, it was unclear whether her bullet wounds had been caused by a shooting or shrapnel from the bomb.
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#1 Benazir Bhutto
I feel so sad for Benazir Bhutto's death. She was a brave polititian and wanted change for Pakistan. There is just so much violence in the world. How can people stop it?