Benazir Bhutto Flown To Family Home For Burial

Benazir Bhutto's body was flown ancestral home to Gari-Khuda Baksh in Sindh province on Friday for burial a day after the former Prime Minister was cut down. Her death has spurred violence throughout Pakistan with angry mobs taking to the streets.

Mobs have taken to the streets blocking roads, torching cars and structures and attacking the police with rocks. At least five have died in Karachi because of the mob violence. Bhutto was murdered on Thursday in Rawalpindi as she left an election rally. She was shot in the neck by a suicide bomber who then detonated a bomb killing an additional 22 people. The police have urged residents to remain inside as the violence surges on.

It's all mayhem everywhere," Shehryar Ahmad, an investment banker in Karachi, told CNN by telephone. "There's absolutely no order of any kind. No army on the streets. No curfew."

The one mile strip leading to Bhutto's home in Karachi is like a ghost town. Bhutto's body was being transported by a Pakistan Air Force plane to her family's ancestral graveyard in Gari-Kurda Baksh. Her husband and three children were on the plane with the former Prime Minister. She will be buried later on Friday according to Sen. Safdar Abbasi a leader in her Pakistan People's Party. The route to her family home is blocked by grievers so her final trip will be taken by helicopter. Her body left Rawalpindi General Hospital late on Thursday in a coffin. Her final moments were spent rallying support for the planned upcoming elections at Liaquat Bagh Park in Rawalpindi that is 9 miles south of Islamabad. She was preparing to leave the rally and waving to her supporters from the sunroof of a white Land Rover when two shots rang out. She slumped into the vehicle just as an explosion sounded. The assassin detonated himself leaving behind a trail of blood. In 1951 Pakistan's first Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan whom the park is named for was assassinated in the same location. Short hours before Bhutto was murdered four supporters of former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif were gunned down at another rally near the Islamabad airport. Bhutto was hoping to be reelected for a third term on January 8. She served her country from 1988-1990 and 1993-1996 as Prime Minister. Both of her previous terms were terminated by the sitting president. She went into a self exposed exile for eight years only returning this past October. On the day she returned an assassination attempt was made on her life. 136 people were killed when an attack was carried out targeting her motorcade.