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Benazir Bhutto: Attack
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The bomb attack on Benazir Bhutto injured at least 500 people among the thousands who lined the streets to welcome her home, ambulance officials said. A hand grenade was thrown first, distracting security forces, Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao told Cable News Network, adding it was a ``professional'' attack.
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An official handout said a suicide attacker had entered Lahore to target Ms Bhutto and other PPP leaders. Officers had been directed to inform Ms Bhutto and her security in-charge about the reports and provide proper security cover, it said, adding that the PPP leader had been advised not to address public meetings to avoid any untoward incident.
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Was reading the news about the suicide attack on a rally held by Benazir Bhutto. It said that she had escaped unhurt when the news came in that Benazir Bhutto is dead. From CNN just minutes ago.
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Bhutto condemned the bombing as the ``dastardly and cowardly'' act of assassins. She ... demanded an inquiry into why streetlights failed to come on, hampering her security guards' efforts to scan the crowds for attackers as darkness fell. Fifty of her guards died, said Bhutto, who was unhurt.
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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said on Thursday that China was shocked at the killing of Pakistan's opposition leader Benazir Bhutto and strongly condemns the terrorist attack. (Video: China condemns killing of Pakistan's Bhutto )
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Bhutto, 54, is said to have died of bullet wounds to her neck and head in a Rawalpindi hospital. Thirty people died in Thursday’s attack, most victims of a suicide-bomber who pushed through the security cordon on a bicycle and blew himself up near Bhutto’s car.
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