The body of slain Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto arrived in Naudero before dawn Friday for burial in the family's graveyard, party officials said.
The plane landed in Sukkur from where the body and members of her family were flown by helicopter to Naudero, her spokesman Farhatullah Babar said. Her husband Asif Zardari, their three children and some senior leaders of Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) travelled on the plane.
Thousands of mourners wept and beat their heads and chests as the body of Benazir Bhutto, slain premier, left her ancestral home at the start of the funeral procession on Friday.
Her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, accompanied the closed coffin draped with the green, red and black tricolour of her Pakistan People's Party.Eternal journey began the 7-km journey by ambulance to the family mausoleum at Garhi Khuda Bakhsh, a village set among paddy fields in the southern province of Sindh.
Anti-Musharraf and anti-US slogans were heard from the peoples lining the road and standing on rooftops. The protesters chanted defiance: “No matter how many Bhuttos you will kill, a Bhutto will emerge from each house.”
Benazir laid to rest for peace with her father's near Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistan's first popularly elected prime minister, who lies alongside his sons Murtaza and Shahnawaz in the white-domed mausoleum.
Benazir Bhutto ordered to be built this mausoleum.
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