The open-head injury with the depressed fracture leading to cardio-pulmonary arrest was the cause of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's death, said Dr Masadaq Hussain, Chief Executive of Allied Hospitals in Rawalpindi. He told reporters that when Mrs Benazir Bhutto was brought at the hospital she was not showing any sign of life. She was admitted and surgeons Aurangzeb Malik, Dr Saeeda, Prof Azam Yousaf, Arif Malik and Qudsia conducted resuscitation, started giving her fluid and kept on her artificial ventilation. Hussain said when they found that her heart was not responding, they immediately shifted her to the operation theatre and continued the resuscitation. When they noticed that resuscitation was not successful they opened her chest and pressed her heart with hands. He said that during the whole process they did not feel her heart beat therefore they declared her dead after over an hour. Hussain said that something hit her right temporal region that fractured her skull and thrust into her brain and the brain matter was exuding. The wound was oval shape and 4x5cm wide and 0.5 inch deep. "I believe that some heavy object had hit her because they did not find any bullet or shrapnel." The doctor said there was no wound on her neck and body. He said that the same report they had submitted to the government.
