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Benazir Bhutto: Last moments

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Press Trust of India Rawalpindi
 * Bhutto goes to address an election rally in Liaqat Ali Bagh

* Finishes her address and gets into her car at 5.30 P.M.

* Two men with AK 47 fire bullets. She is injured in the head and chest.

* Simultaneously, there is a suicide attack near her car.

* No one goes near her car for 10 minutes fearing another explosion.

* She is rushed to hospital.

* Doctors take her to operation theatre.

* Declared dead at 6.16 P.M about 40 minutes after the attack.

 

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First Published: Dec 27 2007 | 9:20 PM IST

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