ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani investigators reconstructed a mangled human head on Friday hoping to identify the man suspected of killing opposition leader Benazir Bhutto in a suicide attack.
"Dr. Frankenstein, call on line two!"
Former prime minister Bhutto was killed in a gun and bomb attack as she left an election rally in the city of Rawalpindi on Thursday, plunging nuclear-armed Pakistan into one of the most serious crises in its 60-year history. "We have retrieved a head and it has been reconstructed. We also found fingers and we're carrying out DNA tests to make a comparison between the head and fingers," said Saud Aziz, police chief in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad.
CSI Islamabad is on the case. I feel sooooo much better.
A man shot at Bhutto as she waved to her supporters from the sun-roof of her bullet-proof car. He then blew himself up. Bhutto was killed by gunshots to the head and neck, a security official said. The blast killed 17 other people. A Reuters reporter at the scene moments after the blast saw a portion of a head, including a blackened ear and half a face on the road. Police cordoned it off.
"Careful where you step. It could still be alive!"
Aziz said samples had been taken from the site for testing to determine what type of explosive had been used. While Aziz declined to speculate on who might have been behind Bhutto's murder, it bore all the hallmarks of strikes by Islamist militants fighting to destabilize the government of U.S. ally President Pervez Musharraf. |