Funerals of victims of suicide attack
(19 Oct 2007) SHOTLIST 1. Wide of funeral for police officers killed in Thursday's explosion, coffins in foreground, guard of honour in background 2. Mid of guard of honour 3. Tilt-up of police inspector putting flowers on coffin 4. Relative of one of the police officers killed crying 5. Friends and relatives walking past coffins 6. Tilt-up from coffin to friends and relatives 7. Wide of funeral with relatives and friends of the dead police officers carrying coffins 8. Wide of crowds at cemetery 9. SOUNDBITE (English) Ziaal Hoassan, Inspector General Police: "This is a suicide bomb attack in which there was one suicide bomber involved and could have been more than one because there were two bomb blasts." 10. Mid of funeral of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) worker killed in bomb blast 11. Coffin being taken from house of victim with relatives and friends crying 12. Funeral procession 13. Relative of one of the dead being greeted by party members at funeral 14. Various of funeral with people praying behind the coffin. STORYLINE Funeral ceremonies were held in Karachi on Friday for some of the 136 victims of Thursday's suicide attack that struck during the homecoming of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. One ceremony was held for two of the police officers killed in the blast, another for two of the workers from Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party. The attack, one of the deadliest in Pakistan's history, bore the hallmarks of militants linked to pro-Taliban warlord Baitullah Mehsud and al-Qaida, according to the top security official in Sindh province, where Karachi is located. Bhutto survived unscathed, but the back-to-back explosions that went off near a bulletproof truck in which she was riding turned her jubilant homecoming parade through the city streets into a scene of blood and carnage. President General Pervez Musharraf phoned Bhutto on Friday to express his shock and grief over the bombing and prayed for her safety and security, his spokesman said. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: / ap_archive Facebook: / aparchives Instagram: / apnews You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...
