Benazir Bhutto's return to Pakistan today was marred by a bomb attack. She's okay, but the death toll is mounting:
A suspected suicide bomber killed more than 45 people and wounded 100 in an attack targeting a vehicle carrying former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto through Karachi on her return from eight years in exile.
Bhutto was safe and at her home after leaving the truck that had been transporting her through streets crowded with hundreds of thousands of people, officials said.
"Ms. Bhutto is safe and she has been taken to her residence," said Azhar Farooqui, a senior police officer in Karachi.
Rescuers scrambled to drag bodies from the twisted wreckage of blazing vehicles as flames lit up the night sky after two apparent explosions in Pakistan's most violent city.
"The blasts hit two police vehicles which were escorting the truck carrying Ms. Bhutto. The target was the truck," Farooqui told Reuters.
