That is a reasonable statement to make. That government, however, said every shot missed, and they aren't medical doctors either.
As pressure increased on Pakistan to accept an international inquiry into Ms. Bhutto’s death, the team of doctors who frantically tried to revive her Thursday said they had requested an autopsy but were rebuffed by the chief of police in Rawalpindi, according to a member of the board of the hospital where she was treated.
The question of an autopsy has become central to the circumstances of Ms. Bhutto’s death because of conflicting versions put forward by the Pakistani government of how she died.
On the night Ms. Bhutto died, an unnamed Interior Ministry spokesman was quoted by the official Pakistani news agency as saying that the former prime minister had died of a “bullet wound in the neck by a suicide bomber.”
The next day, Javed Iqbal Cheema, the Interior Ministry spokesman, said at a news conference that Ms. Bhutto had died of a wound suffered when she hit her head on a lever attached to the sunroof of the vehicle that was carrying her through a crowd after a political rally. “Three shots were fired, but they missed her,” Mr. Cheema said. “Then there was an explosion.”
The explanation was greeted with disbelief by Ms. Bhutto’s supporters, ordinary Pakistanis and medical experts outside the government.
Pakistani and Western security experts said they believed the government’s insistence that Ms. Bhutto was not killed by a bullet was designed to deflect attention from the lack of government security around her vehicle as she left the park in the city where the Pakistani Army keeps its headquarters, and where the powerful Inter Services Intelligence agency has a strong presence, Pakistani and Western security experts said.