Benazir Bhutto assassinated
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in the wake of a suicide bombing that killed at least 14 of her supporters, doctors, a spokesman for her party and other officials said.
Bhutto suffered bullet wounds in the aftermath of the bomb attack, TV networks were reporting.
Police warned citizens to stay home as they expected rioting to break out in city streets as a shocked Pakistan absorbed the news of Bhutto's assassination.
Video of the scene just moments before the explosion showed Bhutto stepping into a heavily-guarded vehicle to leave the rally.
Bhutto was rushed to Rawalpindi General Hospital -- less than two miles from the bombing scene -- where doctors pronounced her dead.
Former Pakistan government spokesman Tariq Azim Khan said while it appeared Bhutto was shot, it was unclear if the bullet wounds to her head and neck were caused by a shooting or if it was shrapnel from the bomb.
The bomber detonated as he tried to enter the rally where thousands of people gathered to hear Bhutto speak, police said. Read about Bhutto's turbulent history.
The number of wounded was not immediately known. However, video of the scene showed ambulances lined up to take many to hospitals.
The attack came just hours after four supporters of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif died when members of another political party opened fire on them at a rally near the Islamabad airport Thursday, Pakistan police said.
Several other members of Sharif's party were wounded, police said.
Bhutto was participating in the parliamentary election set for Jan. 8, hoping for a third term as prime minister.
A terror attack targeting her motorcade in Karachi killed 136 people on the day she returned to Pakistan after eight years of self-imposed exile.
CNN's Mohsin Naqvi, who was at the scene of both bombings, said Thursday's blast was not as powerful as that October attack.
Thursday's attacks come less than two weeks after Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf lifted an emergency declaration he said was necessary to secure his country from terrorists.
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I was surprised she lasted this long!
The handwriting was on the wall. She had to know that it would probably end this way. She was removed from office twice for corruption (sic Siegleman). She even spent 5 years in prison. We sure don't grow them like that in America, "Do we Nancy and Ralph".
"SurpriseD"
reynaldo i trevino There is no fucking surprised.they knew when and where those motherfuck are in the fucking whitehouse don't you know it,am i the only one who know it.fuck poeple what are you {WE)thinging about, (WE} iknow so wake up you fucking fools.
John Negroponte part of this plot to murder her
this was an AL-CIA-DA job, carried out by John Negroponte and his henchmen in Pakistan.
this mass murderer, John Negroponte, must be brought before the I.C.C. in the Hague, and prosecuted for his complicity and his setting up of this murder.
who done it?
the first guy who comes to mind is our so-called friend and has already condemned it. It was done palestinian style which last i checked do not operate in Pakistan. Scary, If the competition did it and used the very tactics we are supposed to be fighting, scary, we need more info, but there is no way we can stand for this no matter who did it, it is a also a big blow to woman who want to lead in that part of the world.
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