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Blasts targeting Bhutto in Pakistan were carried out by two suicide
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KARACHI, Pakistan: The bomb blasts targeting the former opposition
leader Benazir Bhutto during her procession from the airport Thursday
night were playing cards promotional off by two suicide bombers, the governor of Sindh
Province, Ishrat-ul-Ibad, said in an interview Monday.
Investigators have found the heads of two men, which have not been
claimed by homeowners insurance and they are suspected of belonging to the two
bombers, the governor said.
The explosions were detonated close to Bhutto's fortified truck amid
dense crowds of her supporters who had printed playing cards to welcome her on her
return after eight years of self-exile.
The death toll from the explosions has risen to 140, and included a
couple with jumbo playing cards 1-year-old child who had come on a motorbike to see
Bhutto's procession through town, the governor said. Over 500 were
wounded, he said.
It was the deadliest attack of over 50 suicide bomb attacks in
Pakistan in recent years.
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The attack was similar in style to previous suicide bombings in
Karachi and elsewhere in Pakistan, he said. The bombers used C4
plastic explosive, which is powerful and quickly catches fire, he
said.
The same explosive was used in the bombing of a U.S. Consulate vehicle
in Karachi in March 2006, the investigator said.
The police had thought that a grenade bridge size playing cards the first, smaller
explosion Thursday night, and that a suicide bomber had set off the
second, larger blast. But the governor said that the police had later
recovered the head of a second man.
One of the grim consequences of the detonating of a vest full of
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heart shape playing cards best life insurance survived the attacks inside her fortified truck, had said
soon afterward that she thought there were two suicide bombers.
The police estimated that the first bomber was carrying emo fashion to ten
kilograms, or 18 to 22 pounds, of explosives and the second was
carrying 15 kilograms, a much larger amount than that usually used by
suicide bombers, which would explain the high casualties, the governor
said.
Bhutto has called for international experts streetwear clothes be brought in to help
with the investigation, but the Pakistani interior minister, Aftab
Ahmed Khan Sherpao, dismissed the idea Monday.
"We are conducting the investigation in a very objective manner," he
said.
"We have good expertise as far as investigations are concerned," he
said, adding that the police had solved cases concerning suicide
attacks that had targeted the president, the prime minister and
himself.
The government, meanwhile, has moved to curb political rallies and
processions ahead of the two-month parliamentary election campaign,
which will begin Nov. 15 with the dissolution of Parliament. Sherpao
said the government had prepared a code of cheap life insurance that it wanted
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"Elections are just two months away, and we would want peaceful and
conducive elections," he said in comments to reporters in Islamabad.
"We do not want to postpone elections," he added, "but we have made a
draft of code of conduct."
He said the code would prohibit rallies and processions but would
allow gatherings at specific places.
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