Scotland Yard: Bhutto Killed By Bomb Blast

Scotland Yard investigators have concluded that Paksitani opposition leader and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was killed by the impact of a suicide bomb blast, not gunfire, according to a report released Friday.

Released less than a day after thousands of Bhutto's supporters converged on her gravesite to mark the end of a 40 day mourning period, the much anticipated report concurred with the Pakistani government's earlier assertions that a head injury sustained in the blast caused Bhutto's death. Contrary to earlier speculation, however, that two men carried out the Dec. 27 attack, the British-led inquiry concluded that there was only one assassin.

"The inevitable conclusion is that there was one attacker in the immediate vicinity of the vehicle in which Ms. Bhutto was traveling," the report said.

The investigative findings drew immediate and sharp condemnation from members of Bhutto's opposition Pakistan People's Party, or PPP, who renewed calls for the United Nations to launch a separate independent investigation into her assassination.

"It is not material what caused her death, what is material is to identify the perpetrators who caused her death," said Farhatullah Babar, a PPP spokesman.

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