Benazir Bhutto27 December 2007
Bhutto is killed leaving a campaign rally for the PPP at Liaquat National Bagh, where she had given a spirited address to party supporters in the run-up to the January 2008 Parliamentary elections
Pakistan · Politics / Pakistan Peoples Party. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Bhutto is killed leaving a campaign rally for the PPP at Liaquat National Bagh, where she had given a spirited address to party supporters in the run-up to the January 2008 Parliamentary elections
Death of Benazir Bhutto
The Interior Ministry of Pakistan states that "Bhutto was killed when she tried to duck back into the vehicle, and the shock waves from the blast knocked her head into a lever attached to the sunroof, fracturing her skull"
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