British detectives investigating the assassination of Benazir Bhutto examined Monday the partial remains of people killed in the suicide blast, officials said. The anti-terrorism specialists visited the Rawalpindi morgue, where the remains of some of the 23 victims of the gun and suicide bomb attack have been kept since the December 27 assassination.
"The team visited the mortuary, where they examined unidentified limbs, took photographs and collected samples of shreds and pieces collected from the blast site," a security official told AFP, requesting anonymity. They also took a statement from Deputy Superintendent Police Ishtiaq Shah who was wounded in the attack and was being treated in Combined Military Hospital.
More than 80 people injured in the gun and suicide bomb attack on Benazir's motorcade were admitted to the hospital, all but five of whom have been discharged, a medical official said. Benazir's murder sparked nation-wide unrest and forced the delay of key parliamentary elections by six weeks to February 18.