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Benazir Bhutto assassinated


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The suicide bomb attack also killed at least 22 others, doctors said. It was not immediately clear if Bhutto died from shots fired before the blast, or from wounds caused by bomb shrapnel.


Her body was removed from Rawalpindi General Hospital late Thursday night, about six hours after the assassination.


President Pervez Musharraf said the killers were the same extremists that Pakistan is fighting a war against, and announced three days of national mourning.


Video of the scene just moments before the explosion showed Bhutto stepping into a heavily guarded vehicle to leave the rally.


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