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AFP, London

Benazir Bhutto's last words were "Long live Bhutto", the chief political adviser with the former Pakistani prime minister as she was killed told the British newspaper The Sunday Telegraph. Bhutto shouted the words from her car just before she was killed at a campaign rally in the northern city of Rawalpindi on Thursday, said Safdar Abbassi, who said he was sitting behind her in the vehicle. "She did not say anything more," he recalled, in what the weekly broadsheet said was the first account of Bhutto's death from inside her car. Recounting the incident, Abbassi said: "All of a sudden there was the sound of firing. I heard the sound of a bullet. "I saw her: she looked as though she ducked in when she heard the firing. We did not realise that she had been hit by a bullet."

He said he looked up to see Bhutto sliding back through the sunroof, just before it was rocked by a huge explosion.

There was no sound from the 54-year-old and Abbassi said he noticed blood seeping from a deep wound on the left side of her neck.

His wife Naheep Khan cradled Bhutto's head in her lap and pressed her own headscarf onto the politician's wound to try to stem the blood flow.