Former Pakistani prime minister and chairperson of People's
Party (PPP) died after the sunroof lever hit her in the head, local
newspaper DAWN quoted interior ministry spokesman as saying on
Saturday.
Interior ministry spokesman Brigadier Javed Cheema said in a
news briefing?that Benazir Bhutto was hit by sunroof lever on
her right side, which caused her death.
Bhutto was killed on Thursday in a blast when she left her
election campaign rally in a park in the garrison city of
Rawalpindi, some 30 kms south from Islamabad.
Earlier, media reports suggested that gun shots or bomb blast
could be the direct cause of Bhutto's death.
Cheema confirmed that three gun shots were fired but none of
them hit Bhutto. A report signed by seven doctors showed that there
was no bullet or shrapnel inside her body.
Bhutto was laid to rest alongside her father's mausoleum in the
village of Ghari Khuda Baksh in the southern province of Sindh on
Friday. Bhutto's husband Asif Zardari did not allow doctors to
perform postmortem on Bhutto.
Cheema also disclosed that Al-Qaida operative Baitullah Mehsud
was behind the assassination of Bhutto. He said, "We have recorded
a telephone call of Baitullah Mehsud in which he congratulated a
cleric for killing Benazir Bhutto."
Cheema said that Bhutto was on the hit list of Al-Qaida and she
was receiving life threats from the same group since her arrival in
Pakistan.
Baitullah Mehsud was also involved in suicide attack on Bhutto
in the southern port city of Karachi on Oct. 19 when she was
leading a procession, he said.
(Xinhua News Agency December 29, 2007)
