Pakistan releases sketches of Bhutto bomb suspects

0 Comments | AFP, October, 2007

ISLAMABAD (AFP) — Pakistani police have released sketches of two men believed to be suicide bombers who attacked former premier Benazir Bhutto's homecoming procession last week, officials said Friday.

A five-million-rupee (84,000-dollar) reward has also been offered for anyone with information leading to the identification of the group behind the October 18 attacks in the southern city of Karachi, which killed 139 people.

"We have released sketches of two suspects who could be the suicide bombers," Karachi police chief Azhar Farooqi told AFP.

The sketches were taken from two severed heads found at the scene of the blasts and thought to be those of the bombers.

One was largely intact but the other was badly damaged, forcing forensic experts to...

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