15 quizzed in relation to Bhutto suicide attack
Pakistani security agencies investigating last week’s deadly suicide attack on Benazir Bhutto have held at least 15 people for questioning, a police official said today.
Some of those held were wounded in Thursday’s attack on Bhutto’s homecoming procession in Karachi and were picked up from local hospitals.
None are currently being treated as suspects, a police investigator said. The investigator said around 15 or 16 people were being held.
A second police investigator confirmed that a number of people were being questioned.
The attack rocked Pakistan’s largest city, killing about 136 people, as former Pakistani Prime Minister Bhutto marked her return from an eight-year exile.
Authorities say the attacks were probably carried out by two suicide bombers, and have released a picture showing the head of one of the bombers but have yet to identify him.
Security in the city remains high as Bhutto revealed yesterday she had received a new death threat.
She said her lawyer received a letter from an unidentified “friend of al-Qaida” threatening to slaughter her “like a goat.”
