Musharraf declares 3 days of national mourning

CBC News 

Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto was killed Thursday in an apparent suicide attack at a campaign rally in which at least 20 others died.

Bhutto died around 6:16 p.m. local time (8:16 a.m. ET) at Rawalpindi General Hospital after undergoing emergency surgery for wounds sustained in the attack at the city's Liaqat Bagh park, her senior spokesman Farhatullah Babar said.

"We are in the hospital where her dead body is lying," Babar told CBC News in a telephone interview from Rawalpindi.

In a brief televised address, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf condemned the attack and announced three days of mourning for Bhutto.

Meanwhile, paramilitary forces were put on "red alert" across the country, Reuters reported.