Pakistani police have arrested two more suspects in connection with the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, the interior minister said on Thursday.
Bhutto was killed in a gun and bomb attack on December 27 as she was coming out of an election rally in the city of Rawalpindi.
”Right now, I can only say that two suspects have been apprehended in this connection,” Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz told Reuters.
Last month, authorities arrested 15-year-old Aitezaz Shah, who admitted being a back-up suicide bomber for a team that assassinated Bhutto. Shah and his ”handler”, Sher Zaman, were captured in the north-western city of Dera Ismail Khan.
The government has blamed Baitullah Mehsud, an al-Qaeda-linked militant commander, based in a tribal region on the Afghan border, for Bhutto’s murder.
The latest arrests came as Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party marked 40th and final mourning day of her assassination. — Reuters