ISLAMABAD: Benazir Bhutto was not hit by a bullet but by a shrapnel of the suicide bomb which was triggered exactly when the bomber saw her emerging from her vehicleÂ’s sun roof to wave to the crowds, a top-level meeting presided over by President Pervez Musharraf was informed on Thursday night.
Sources said the meeting was also informed that Benazir Bhutto had taken her seat in the rear of the jeep but saw an emotional crowd waving at her. She opted to respond by coming out of the sun-roof and waved at them. The suicide bomber saw her and blew himself up, hitting her in the neck with a piece of shrapnel.
She slumped on her seat and PPP Vice-Chairman Makhdoom Amin Fahim, who was sitting on her left and Ms Nahid Khan, who was sitting on her right, could not gather that their leader has been fatally wounded, since they were in panic to see the blast outside the jeep. |