Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto ’killed in blast’
 RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (CNN) — Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday outside a large gathering of her supporters where a suicide bomber also killed at least 22, doctors and a spokesman for her party said. Benazir Bhutto greets her supporters at the rally that was hit by a suicide attack.was not immediately clear if Bhutto died from shots fired before the blast, or from wounds caused by bomb shrapnel.President Pervez Musharraf held an emergency meeting in the hours after the death, according to state media. He said the killers were the same extremists that Pakistan is fighting a war against, and announced three days of national mourning.Video of the scene just moments before the explosion showed Bhutto stepping into a heavily guarded vehicle to leave the rally. |
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