Two dozen dead in Bhutto protests

Source: Reuters

KARACHI (Reuters) - Protests erupted in Pakistan for a second day on Friday after the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto and the violence was worst in her home province in the south.

Officials said 24 people, including four policemen, had died since former prime minister Bhutto was murdered on Thursday in a gun and bomb attack after an election rally in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad.

The violence intensified on Friday into some of the worst political disturbances in years in nuclear-armed Pakistan.

All but one of the dead were killed in Sindh province in the south, Bhutto's home province and her main base of support.



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that Pakistan has nuclear weapons? It's not like they're rogue weapons, ready to be set off at any moment because of the riots.