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Benazir Bhutto: Karachi October
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The supporters of Benazir Bhutto hit the streets in Karachi, Peshawar and Quetta on Friday, blocking roads and vandalizing vehicles. Reports further say that at some places, the angry protestors ... pelted stones at the police personnel.
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Police Chief Azhar Farooqi told Dawn News that Bhutto was rushed from the area under contingency plans. ”She was evacuated very safely and is now in Bilawal House,” Farooqi said, referring to Bhutto’s residence in Karachi
En route to a rally in Karachi on October 18, 2007, two explosions occurred shortly after Bhutto had landed and left Jinnah International Airport. She was not injured but the explosions, later found to be a suicide-bomb attack, killed 136 people and injured at least 450. The dead included at least 50 of the security guards from her PPP who had formed a human chain around her truck to keep potential bombers away, as well as 6 police officers. A number of senior officials were injured. Bhutto, after nearly 10 hours of the parade through Karachi, ducked back down into the steel command center to remove her sandals from her swollen feet, moments before the bomb went off.[81] She was escorted unharmed from the scene.[82]
Fayyaz Khan, a Karachi police official, said: "There was a demonstration against the house arrest of Benazir Bhutto. Somebody among the demonstrators opened fire and two boys aged around 11 or 12 were killed."
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