Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has been killed in a terrorist attack.
Updates (Israel time)
3:50PM: It has been reported she was killed in a “gun and suicide bomb attack after an election rally.”
A Reuters witness at the scene said he heard two shots moments before the blast.
“As party leaders, including Bhutto, started coming out a man tried to go close to them and then he fired some shots and blew himself up,” said Yaseen, a police officer, at the scene.
According to the CNN report, she died “following a bullet wound in the neck”, which indicates she died from the shots fired at her, rather than the suicide bomb attack.
3:57PM: She was shot in the neck and chest according to this report.
4:00PM: The Ha’aretz news ticker showed this item:
15:50: Russian Deputy FM: Bhutto death will trigger wave of terror
But wasn’t Bhutto killed in an act of terrorism, not long after she narrowly averted death in a separate terror attack? Looks to me like the wave of terror in Pakistan long preceded her death.
5:00PM: Al Qaeda is claiming responsibility for the attack.
