Shots have been fired at the motorcade of the Pakistani prime minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani. A government spokesman told reporters that two shots, fired from an assault rifle, had hit the prime minister's car, but that the bullets had failed to penetrate the vehicle's armour.
Some earlier reports said Gilani was in the vehicle at the time, but later accounts said the motorcade was actually on the way to the airport to pick him up. There has Prachanda sworn in as Nepal's first republican prime minister ...
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16 injured as military display shoots with real bullets ... been no claim of responsibility for the shooting. Gilani is a senior member of the party of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. She was killed in a suicide bombing while campaigning for a general election late last year.
(Deutsche Welle)
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