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Pak govt reveals
how Benazir was killed
By IBNlive.com
12/28/07 "IBNlive"
-- - -New Delhi: Mystery shrouds the death of former
Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto. In an explosive
revelation, Pakistan's Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz on Friday
said that Bhutto did not die of bullet wounds.
Nawaz said that Bhutto died from a head injury. At least seven
doctors from the Rawalpindi General Hospital – where the leader
was rushed immediately after the attack – say there were no
bullet marks on Bhutto's body.
The doctors have submitted a report to the Pakistan government
in which they say that no post-mortem was performed on Bhutto’s
body and they had not received any instructions to perform one.
“The report says she had head injuries – an irregular patch –
and the X-ray doesn’t show any bullet in the head. So it was
probably the shrapnel or any other thing has struck her in her
said. That damaged her brain, causing it to ooze and her death.
The report categorically ssyas there’s no wound other than
that,” Nawaz told a Pakistani news channel.
Government sources say there will be an investigation to
determine why no autopsy was conducted.
According to agency reports doctors at the Rawalpindi General
Hospital tried desperately for 41 minutes to revive former prime
minister Bhutto after she was shot but failed in their efforts.
Bhutto was declared dead 41 minutes after she was brought the
hospital's emergency department at 1735 hrs (local time) (1805
hrs IST) with open wounds on her left temporal bone from which
"brain matter was exuding", the report said.
It said Bhutto was not breathing at the time and her pulse and
blood pressure "were not recordable".
IANS adds: According to the report, "immediate resuscitation
(process) was started" and she was taken to the operation
theatre where she was attended by a team of doctors headed by
Musaddiq Khan, principal of the Rawalpindi Medical College, Dawn
reported Friday.
"Left antrolateral thoracotomy for open cardiac massage was
performed," the hospital report said, adding: "In spite of all
the possible measures she could not be revived and (was)
declared dead at 1816 hrs IST (6.16 p.m.)."
An autopsy was not carried out at the hospital "because the
district administration and police had not requested the
hospital authorities (for this)", the report said.
Bhutto was shot not far from where
Pakistan's first prime minister Liaquat Ali Khan was killed by
an assassin's bullet on Oct 16, 1951.
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