Scotland Yard experts examine Bhutto murder scene
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Counter-terrorism experts from Scotland Yard have made their first inspection of the site where former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated last week.
Armed commandos enforced a security cordon around the Liaqat Bath public park where Ms Bhutto was murdered shortly after leaving a campaign rally on December 27.
The five-strong team of British detectives arrived on Friday, a day after President Pervez Musharraf's announcement that their specialist skills in forensics would assist Pakistani agencies in determining how Ms Bhutto died.
"The Scotland Yard team is examining the venue where she addressed a rally and the site where she was attacked," a Rawalpindi police official told AFP.
Pakistan's interior ministry has blamed the gun and suicide attack on an alleged Al Qaeda militant and says Ms Bhutto died from an accidental head wound as she ducked for cover.
But Ms Bhutto's aides who were by her side during the attack say she died from a gunshot to the head. Her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, refused to allow an autopsy before she was buried, saying "we know how she died".
Mr Musharraf bristled when asked whether the Britons would be allowed to question politicians and an intelligence chief whom Ms Bhutto had accused of plotting to kill her, saying there would be no "wild goose chase".
- AFP
