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Pakistan crisis continues

Updated on 29 December 2007

By Jonathan Rugman

The violence that has gripped Pakistan since Mrs Bhutto's assassination continued today with running battles fought between police and protestors on the streets of Rawalpindi

Within the last hour new photographs have been released which appear to show gunman who shot the Pakistani opposition leader at a rally in Rawalpindi on Thursday and a separate suspected bomber who detonated explosives.

Thousands of troops were deployed across the main cities as the government sought to regain control.

Three of Mrs Bhutto's supporters were shot today bringing the death toll in this latest crisis to 44. At a press conference the Interior Minister at press conference claimed rioting had destroyed almost 200 banks as well as 18 railway stations and that 100 prisoners sprung from jail.

The war of words between the government and Mrs Bhutto's supporters continued today. One of her aides dismissing as "ludicrous" claims that she died after hitting her head on the car sunroof during the attack.

Inigo Gilmore reports from Larkana

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