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Pakistani Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto killed in suicide bomb attack

By KSEE Sunrise
July 26, 2010 Updated Jul 26, 2010 at 2:19 PM PDT

A party aide says Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto has died.
The aide says Bhutto died after being shot in the neck and chest as she was leaving a campaign rally. The gunman then blew himself up killing 20 people and injuring dozens more.
The death of the former prime minister is being confirmed by a
senior Pakistani military official. As word of the death spread, Bhutto's supporters at a hospital in Rawalpindi began chanting against Pakistan's president.
Some of them smashed the glass door at the main entrance of the
emergency unit, others burst into tears.

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