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Bhutto's Body Flown Home

She will be buried near her father; nine dead in rioting

By John Johnson,  Newser Staff

Posted Dec 27, 2007 7:54 PM CST

(Newser) – The body of Benazir Bhutto was flown to her ancestral homeland in Pakistan Friday as riots in the wake of her assassination claimed the lives of at least nine people. Police reported widespread unrest in Karachi and across the country, CNN reports. TV footage showed Bhutto supporters torching cars and throwing rocks at police. She will be buried Friday near her father in their family village.

"It's all mayhem everywhere," said a banker in Karachi. "There's absolutely no order of any kind." Police shot into a crowd in Khairpur and killed at least two people, a local TV station reported. President Musharraf, meanwhile, convened an emergency meeting with top aides to discuss a possible postponement of the January 8 elections, MSNBC reports.

Pakistani's and their supporters hold candles near photos of  Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto at an impromptu rally in a Pakistani neighborhood in New York, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007.  (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Pakistani's and their supporters hold candles near photos of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto at an impromptu rally in a Pakistani neighborhood in New York, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007. (AP...   (Associated Press)
Pakistan former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, center, leaves a local hospital, where Benazir Bhutto died,  in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007. Sharif announced Thursday his party was boycotting Jan. 8 parliamentary elections following the assassination of Bhutto, and demanded that the country's president resign immediately. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
Pakistan former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, center, leaves a local hospital, where Benazir Bhutto died, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007. Sharif announced Thursday his party was boycotting...   (Associated Press)
People carry the coffin of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto at a local hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007.  Bhutto was assassinated in a suicide attack earlier Thursday that also killed at least 20 other people. Her death stoked new chaos across the nuclear-armed nation, an important...
People carry the coffin of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto at a local hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007. Bhutto was assassinated in a suicide attack earlier Thursday...   (Associated Press)
Rufi Shahid mourns over the coffin of her husband who was killed by Thursday's suicide bombing on Bhutto's convoy, Karachi, Pakistan, Saturday, Oct. 20, 2007. Two days after the homecoming of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was shattered by Pakistan's worst terrorist attack in years, at least 30 victims of...
Rufi Shahid mourns over the coffin of her husband who was killed by Thursday's suicide bombing on Bhutto's convoy, Karachi, Pakistan, Saturday, Oct. 20, 2007. Two days after the homecoming of former Prime...   (Associated Press)
Supporters of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto mourn outside an operating theater of a local hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
Supporters of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto mourn outside an operating theater of a local hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)   (Associated Press)
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