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Hundreds of Thousands Attend Funeral of Bhutto

HeadlineDec 28, 2007

Hundreds of thousands of mourners have filled the streets of the Pakistani village of Garhi Khuda Bakhsh for the funeral of Benazir Bhutto. The former Pakistani prime minister was assassinated on Thursday after a campaign rally in Rawalpindi, the site of Pakistan’s military headquarters. Bhutto was shot twice just before a suicide bomber detonated an explosion that killed at least twenty or her supporters. Bhutto’s assassination came less than ten weeks after the Bush administration helped broker a deal for Bhutto to return to Pakistan after eight years in exile.

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