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Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema said all bullet shots missed her as she was on the sunroof of her vehicle waving, which was bulletproof and bombproof. Javed also denied that shrapnel caused her death, saying Bhutto was killed when she tried to duck back into the vehicle, as bomb shock waves from the blast knocked her head to mettle attached to the sunroof, fracturing her right ear head skull.
"The injury over Bhutto's right ear had irregular edges. If there were any bullet injuries, it would have been a little opening and wide exit, but the cardiac arrest was due to brain injury," the doctor said.
An X-ray also showed no signs of bullet injuries. Doctors tried to resuscitate Benazir and performed an open heart massage before declaring her dead at 6:16 pm, he said
The interior ministry said at a press conference that video of Ms Bhutto's last moments and an examination by doctors had shown that Ms Bhutto died apparently accidentally, a suicide bomb blast went off at her political rally in Rawalpindi last night, killing around 20 people. The post mortem examination had not been carried out at the request of Ms Bhutto's husband.
Brigadier Javed Cheema, a ministry spokesman, said Ms Bhutto had died from a head wound after smashing against the sunroof’s lever as she tried to shelter inside her car. “There is no evidence of any foreign element in her body," Brigadier Cheema said. “No bullet hit her, nor any splinters hit her. Unfortunately, it was to be that way.
"I wish she had not come out of the roof top of her vehicle."
Brigadier Cheema insisted the Government had done everything in its power to protect Ms Bhutto. He said everybody at the rally in Rawalpindi had been searched, Ms Bhutto's rostrum had been bulletproof, and "all possible security arrangements were made within the resources of the Government of Pakistan".
He added: "It pains me, I say with a lot of anguish, that we wish she had not come out of that vehicle to wave to the people."
Posted December 28th, 2007 by Nksagar
She hit her head??
Wait- let me get this straight... After bullets fired, and a suicide bomb killing 25 people goes off next to her car, the Interior Ministry says she died ducking back into the car. No bullets, no shrapnel, she just bumped her head. And the Interior Ministry says (twice) that she shouldn't have come up out of the car in the first place. In other words, the government did an excellent job of protecting her- instead, it was all her fault- she came up out of the car; she hit her head. This is the clumsiest, most transparent attempt at ass covering I've seen in a long time...