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🗓️ 7 February 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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0:00.0 | I didn't see the body. |
0:02.5 | They had the coffin there. |
0:05.3 | I didn't want to open it. |
0:13.0 | In the last episode on a cold, winter night, |
0:16.1 | Benazir Boutos' body was in a wooden coffin |
0:19.3 | at an air base near where she was killed. |
0:22.5 | It was surrounded by her three teenage children, |
0:26.2 | and nearby her husband, Asif Sedari. |
0:33.2 | We were all absolutely in a day's, |
0:37.2 | so we didn't know what to do. |
0:41.6 | Benazir had to be buried as soon as possible, |
0:44.7 | but the Boutos family Mausoleum was almost 1,000 kilometers away. |
0:50.3 | The military provided a C-130 transport plane to get her body |
0:54.7 | and her family in place for the funeral. |
0:58.3 | For Benazir's son, Bilal, that night is still vivid. |
1:05.5 | Eventually, we went with the body into a cargo plane, |
1:09.4 | then we flew to Sucker Airport from there, |
1:14.0 | and we transferred the body to the helicopter, |
1:17.0 | and flew to Norgana Airport. |
1:21.1 | And from there, me and my father went with the body |
1:24.6 | in an ambulance. |
1:25.9 | And I say, ambulance, this was a large tin can. |
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