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UK Probe: Blast Killed Bhutto

She died from head injury caused by blast, says Scotland Yard

By Peter Fearon, Newser Staff

Posted Feb 8, 2008 6:18 AM CST

(Newser) – Scotland Yard detectives investigating the assassination of Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto have concluded that the cause of death was not a bullet, but the massive head injury she sustained when she was thrown by the suicide bomb blast. The findings mesh with the Pakistan... Read full story »

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