Thousands mourn Bhutto at funeral
The funeral procession for Benazir Bhutto began in Pakistan today with her plain wooden coffin being carried through her ancestral village by supporters.
The streets of Garhi Khuda Baksh were packed to overflowing as thousands of mourners thronged the streets after her body arrived aboard a military aircraft, accompanied by husband Asif Ali Zardari and their three children.
People cried and wailed as the coffin was taken by ambulance to her family home in Larkana in the Sindh district for a funeral that was getting under way with a procession of emotional followers.
"Show patience. Give us courage to bear this loss," Mr Zardari urged the crowds as the coffin was borne into the house.
Ms Bhutto's coffin, draped in the red, green and black flag of her Pakistan People's Party, was then carried in a white ambulance from her ancestral residence to her final resting place in Garhi Khuda Baksh, about three miles away.
Thousands of mourners, many of them women and children, gathered around the house. Many were crying, some shouting.
"Benazir is alive, Bhutto is alive," cried many of the mourners.
