Youth claims role in Bhutto plot

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Source: CCTV.com | 01-21-2008 13:31

Pakistani security agents have arrested a youth who says he was trained as a suicide bomber to kill Benazir Bhutto.

Former premier Benazir Bhutto addresses her  supporters during her last election campaign  in Rawalpindi, 27 December 2007. (AFP/File/Aamir Qureshi)

A senior intelligence official says the 15-year-old teenager told interrogators he would have been "next in line" to kill Bhutto if another team had failed.

But the official said there was no hard evidence to back up the confession.

The boy is one of two suspects detained in northwestern Pakistan. Arms and ammunition were reportedly found in their possession.

Benazir Bhutto was killed in a gun and bomb attack, as she left an election rally in the city of Rawalpindi on Deccember 27th.

Editor:Zhang Pengfei