Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto was killed Thursday in an apparent suicide attack at a campaign rally in which at least 20 others died. - Bhutto died around 6:16 p.m. local time (8:16 a.m. ET) at Rawalpindi General Hospital after undergoing emergency surgery for wounds sustained in the attack at the city's Liaqat Bagh park, her senior spokesman Farhatullah Babar said. - "We are in the hospital where her dead body is lying," Babar told CBC News in a telephone interview from Rawalpindi. - Bhutto's spokesman said she had just finished addressing the rally and was waving from the roof of a vehicle to the crowd of supporters gathered at the park's main gate when the bomber struck. - Conflicting accounts have emerged over whether Bhutto was killed by the blast or by gunfire heard ahead of the explosion. - Rehman Malik, Bhutto's security adviser, told the Associated Press she was shot in the neck and chest before the attacker blew himself up. - An Associated Press reporter at the scene also counted about 20 bodies, including police, and could see many other wounded people. - Bhutto escaped an assassination attempt in October when twin explosions ripped through crowds in Karachi welcoming her home from eight years of exile. Nearly 150 people died in the attacks. - Upon hearing reports of her death, thousands of Bhutto's supporters gathered outside the hospital chanting "Dog, Musharraf, dog." - "I can see outside now the massive amounts of people," Babar said from inside the hospital. Security requests ignored: adviser - The Western-educated Bhutto enjoyed high popularity at home and abroad and was leading Pakistan's largest political party heading into the Jan. 8 parliamentary election. - Bhutto's chief rival, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, told the BBC her death was a tragedy for "the entire nation." - Questions were im...
Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto was killed Thursday in an apparent suicide attack at...
