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Podcast: True Crime Never Sleeps
Episode: The Assassination of Benazir Bhutto
Description: This week on True Crime Never Sleeps season finale, we dive into the Assassination of Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan. On the morning of 27 December 2007, Bhutto met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. In the afternoon, she gave a speech at a PPP rally held in Rawalpindi's Liaquat National Bagh. On leaving in a bulletproof vehicle, she opened the car's escape hatch and stood up to wave to the surrounding crowds. A man standing within two to three meters of the car fired three gunshots at her and detonated a suicide vest packed with ball bearings. Bhutto was...