ISLAMABAD (AP) ? A Pakistani government prosecutor says a court has indicted two more suspects in the killing of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
Zulfikar Ali says the two men, both police officers, were charged with failing to provide Bhutto with proper security and with destroying evidence.
Five other suspects already on trial in the case are members of the Pakistani Taliban. They will be given a new trial so they can be tried together with the new defendants.
The prosecutor says a judge read out the charges against all seven at a closed-door hearing Saturday in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, where Bhutto was killed.
Bhutto was killed Dec. 27, 2007, in a gun and suicide-bomb attack at a rally just weeks after returning home from years in self-imposed exile.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) ? Police say a suicide bomber targeting the country's Shiite minority has killed himself in a premature explosion in southwestern Pakistan.
Hamid Shakeel, deputy inspector general in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, says the Saturday incident took place on the outskirts of the city.
He says a man in his twenties was heading toward a Shiite mosque when his explosive-rigged suicide vest went off prematurely, a little short of his apparent target.
In recent years, al-Qaida-linked Sunni militant groups have targeted the country's Shiite minority in suicide bombings and in shootings. Baluchistan has recently been a center of this violence, with at least four major attacks against Shiites since May.
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