KARACHI, Pakistan (CNN) -- A top aide who helped bathe Benazir Bhutto's body after her death said the former Pakistani prime minister clearly had bullet wounds to the head, calling a lie the government's conclusion that a sunroof lever was involved.


Benazir Bhutto died Thursday after a suicide bombing at a political rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

more photos » "It's beginning to look like a cover up to me," Pakistan People's Party information secretary Sherry Rehman said in a CNN interview.

On Friday Interior Ministry spokesman Brig. Javed Iqbal Cheema said that Bhutto "fell down or perhaps ducked" after the suicide bomber ignited and apparently hit her head on the car's sunroof lever.

Rehman, who was riding in the car behind Bhutto's when it was attacked, called the government's conclusion that Bhutto was not shot a lie.

"The government comes up with the most bizarre, dangerous nonsense," Rehman said. Watch the government account of how Bhutto died »

"It indicates that they are abdicating themselves of all responsibility by saying that she may have knocked her head or concussed her head against one of the levers on the sunroof," Rehman added.

Bhutto was hemorrhaging on the way to the hospital and the two cars used to get her there were blood-soaked, Rehman said.

The government explanation was its third since her death. Hours after it happened, the Pakistani Interior Ministry said Thursday that she died from a gunshot wound to the neck.

That account was consistent with statements to The Associated Press from doctors who pronounced Bhutto dead at a hospital.

Later, on Friday, the Interior Ministry said shrapnel from the explosion killed Bhutto. Then came the ministry's report hours later that she died from a skull fracture received when she either fell or ducked into the car after the explosion and knocked her head against a sunroof latch.


Video of the incident shows a gunman firing three times at Bhutto's car, as she stood through the open sunroof of her vehicle after leaving a rally in Rawalpindi. The gunman then blew himself up, killing 23 others as well, officials have said.

Dr. Mussadiq Khan of Rawalpindi General Hospital, who treated Bhutto before she was pronounced dead, said she had a large wound on the side of her head consistent with striking or being struck by "something big, with a lot of speed."

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