Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was wounded in a gun and suicide bomb attack after an election rally in the city of Rawalpindi on Thursday, a party security official and police said.
”She is injured,” said party security official Rehman Malik. She had been taken to hospital.
A Reuters witness at the scene said he heard two shots moments before the blast.
”As party leaders, including Bhutto, started coming out a man tried to go close to them and then he fired some shots and blew himself up,” said Yaseen, a police officer, at the scene.
Police said about 15 people had been killed in the blast.
Earlier, party officials said Bhutto was safe.
A Reuters witness said he saw about eight bodies on a road as well as a mutilated human head.
An Interior Ministry spokesperson said initial reports suggested it was a suicide bombing and more than 10 people had been killed.
A suicide bomber killed nearly 150 people in an attack on Bhutto on October 18 as she paraded through the southern city of Karachi after returning home from eight years in self-imposed exile. — Reuters