Today is Monday, October 18th, 2021.

On this day in 2007, a suicide bomber targeted former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

While Buto escaped unharmed, the attack killed and wounded hundreds of people.

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Welcome to Today in True Crime, a Spotify original from Parcast. Due to the graphic nature of this case,

listener discretion is advised. This episode includes discussions of terrorism, suicide, and the murder of children

and adults. We advise extreme caution for children under 13. Today we'll discuss a brutal attack

on Benazir Bouto's motorcade. Let's go back to the morning of October 18, 2007, in the streets of Karachi, Pakistan.

54-year-old Buto had returned to her home country after eight years of self-imposed exile. The former prime minister

left Pakistan to avoid politically motivated corruption charges, but made a deal with the president,

General Pervase Musharraf, for amnesty. With her name cleared, she was free to pursue re-election.

As Budo's motorcade made its way through the

streets of Karachi, she noticed the streetlights weren't illuminated along the route. She rode

in an armored truck for her safety, but still scanned the crowd constantly, searching for danger.

Darkness obscured the throngs of up to 200,000 supporters in the streets,

who danced and waved banners for the Pakistan People's Party, or PPP.

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