One resident, 30-year-old Rebecca Carbone, said she head a loud blast that "sounded like a car backfiring".
Nadterechny district head Sultan Akhmetkhanov said the blast came at 10:10 a.m. local time.
Gligorov, 78, suffered a head injury in the powerful blast, which sent glass flying and damaged buildings near the national parliament.
Pakistani and British investigators concluded that Bhutto died when the force of the suicide blast slammed her head onto an escape hatch on her SUV.
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Pakistani and British investigators concluded that Bhutto died when the force of the suicide blast caused her to slam her head onto an escape hatch on her SUV.
Pakistan's opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was killed by a head injury she received from a suicide bomb blast and not by gunfire that preceded the explosion, investigators from Britain's Scotland Yard said Friday.
"The blast caused a violent collision between her head and the escape hatch area of the vehicle, causing a severe and fatal head injury, " it said.
The city's head of security, Col Mahmoud Sherif, said the blast outside the military academy left two people dead and four or five injured.
Those who like their truths conveyed in more conventionally rigorous terms will be frustrated by Mr Brody's method, which, though it builds up a head of emotional steam, seems to dodge the final blast of the trumpet for which we feel we have been prepared.
The force of the blast, in Rawalpindi on December 27 last year, propelled her head into part of the escape hatch and caused an injury that killed her, Scotland Yard said.
The head of Iraq's intelligence academy and two bodyguards have been killed in a suicide blast in the northern town of Tal Afar, police say.
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