QUETTA, Pakistan - Three supporters of Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto were killed Saturday when gunmen attacked her partyÂ’s office in a town in southwestern Pakistan, police said, in the first reported deaths in the current election campaign.Officers were investigating the early morning incident, which occurred in Naseerabad, about 250 kilometers (150 miles) east of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, said Wajid Akbar, the district police chief. Police had no immediate information about the motive for the attack or who was behind it, he said.
Although killings and other violence have been common in past elections in Pakistan, the bloodshed in Naseerabad was the first such incident in the campaign for parliamentary elections scheduled for Jan. 8.