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GHARI KHUDA BAKSH, Pakistan: The body of Benazir Bhutto on Friday arrived at her family's mausoleum in southern Pakistan where it was greeted by a huge roar from hundreds of thousands of mourners, witnesses said.
The white station wagon carrying Bhutto's coffin -- wrapped in the black, green and red flag of her Pakistan People's Party -- took over two hours to crawl the five kilometres (3.2 miles) from her family home in Naudero to the ancestral graveyard in the village of Ghari Khuda Baksh.
As the casket passed through the vast crowds hanging off every street corner and building, many mourners wailed and beat their chests in frenzied outpouring of grief.
Bhutto will be buried in the ancestral graveyard in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh near the grave of her father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, her spokesman Farhatullah Babar said.
Caravans of her supporters are expected to arrive from several towns in Sindh, which is considered a PPP stronghold, party officials said.
The coffin carrying Bhutto was earlier flown in a Pakistani air force C-130 aircraft from Islamabad.
Bhutto was assassinated on Thursday in a gun and bomb attack that killed around 20 people as she left a party rally in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, near the capital Islamabad.
Bhutto, a two-time former premier, was spearheading the PPP's campaign for January 8 general elections. – AFP/ac
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