All too unsurprising news from CNN:
KARACHI, Pakistan (CNN) — At least 35 people were killed Thursday night in two explosions that went off near a motorcade carrying former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who returned to the country earlier in the day after eight years of self-imposed exile, police sources told CNN.
Bhutto and those with her were not hurt.
Her companions said she reached her destination safely.
“I can see body parts strewn all over the road,” said CNN’s Dan Rivers, at the scene. “There are dead bodies everywhere. … It is a large-scale attack, by the looks of things.”
Rivers said police told CNN they believe they found the body of a suicide bomber.
“We have no way of confirming that, but it has all the hallmarks of some sort of terrorist attack,” River’s told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.
Rivers said there was remarkably little security near the motorcade considering the sizable security risk Bhutto presents. Bhutto’s return angered some sectors in Pakistan because she was a female head of state who is perceived as being aligned with the United States.
“We remarked on how lax security was around her,” Rivers told Blitzer after the explosions. “We got within touching distance of her vehicle. There was no security around, nobody stopping vehicles getting close to [the motorcade].”
Video footage from the scene showed the street jammed with emergency vehicles, and injured victims writhing in the middle of the road.
CNN Producer Syed Mohsin Naqvi said the death toll is likely to rise, as he had seen more than 35 bodies in the aftermath of the blasts.